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GENERAL 8UPERLNTENDENT 



PHILADELPHIA BRANCH 



U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION, 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 



FEBKTIARY 1st, 1864, 



PHILADELPHIA : 
KING & BAIRD, PRINTERS, No. 607 SANSOM STREET. 

1864. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



HORACE BINNEY, Jr., Chairman. 

M. W. BALDWIN, 

REV. H. A. BOARDMAN, D. D.. 

JOHN C. CRESSON, 

J. L CLARK HARE, 

JOHN F. MEIGS, M. I).. 

SAMUEL POWEL, 

THOMAS T. TASKER, 

EDWARD HARTSHORNE, M. D., Secretanj. 

CALEB COPE, Treasurer 



REFORT 



oy THE 

GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT '^'^ 



PHILADELPHIA BRANCH 



U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION, 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 



FEBRUARY 1st, 1864. 



PHILADELPHIA : 
KING & BAIRD, PRINT P:RS, No. 607 SANSOM STREET. 

1864. 



U. S. Sanitary Commission, Philadelphia Agency, ) 
1307 Chestnut Street, Feb, l.s'/, 1864. ) 

To the Executive Oomraittee of the Philadelphia Branch of the 
U, S. Sanitary Commission. 

Gentlemen: 

I have the honor to submit to you a report of the 
operations of this Branch of the Commission from its 
organization. Before entering upon the details of our 
special work here, it may be well to say a word ex- 
planatory of the position of the Central or General 
Commission, and of our relations to it as one of its 
branches. 

The United States Sanitary Commission was appoint- 
ed by the President of the United States in June 1861. 
Its original functions were to inquire into all the 
causes which might aifect the health, aud therefore 
the efficiency of the Army, and to advise the author- 
ities in regard to the proper measures for the removal 
of such causes. Practically, it has become in the pro- 
gress of the war, the great instrument by which the 
enlightened humanity and patriotism of the American 
people have aided the Government in the care of the 
soldier during the whole period of his service, and until 
his return to his home. Thus it looks after the recruits 
in the barracks, before the regiments to which they be- 
long are ordered to the South ; it follows them to Wash- 
ington, and takes care of sick and exhausted strag- 
glers ; it maintains a complete and permanent field 
relief agency with every Army Corps, which supplies 



those countless needs of the soldier for which the Gov- 
ernment either cannot or will not provide; it maintains a 
constant supervision over the camps and field hospitals, 
acting in perfect harmony with the medical officers of 
the Army in improving their sanitary condition ; it is 
present during and after every battle, in every part of 
the country, dispensing with its bountiful hand what- 
ever may relieve and comfort the wounded; it watches 
over by means of a corps of scientific Inspectors the 
condition of all the Military Hospitals throughout the 
country, and advises and suggests improvements ; it 
keeps up a Hospital Directory by means of vdiich any 
sick or wounded soldier in the whole Army may be 
readily traced by his friends, and last but not least, it 
looks after the soldier when he is discharged, on ac- 
count of sickness ordisability, as well from the care, 
as the service of the Government, assists him to secure 
the pay due him, and sends him rejoicing to the bosom 
of his family. To execute properly these manifold 
functions it is obvious that many agents must be em- 
ployed, and much money spent. The Central Commis- 
sion embraces the superintendence of the whole field, 
and its treasury is the fountain whence the means are 
derived of performing all this work, and distributing 
such supplies as are furnished by the branches. The 
amount received at the Central Treasury from the 
organization of the Commission, is about one million 
of dollars. With this sum all the machinery of the 
Commission for the various departments of the work, 
has been maintained, supplies of a kind not furnished 
by the homes of the country, have been purchased, and 
articles sent by the various contributing societies, of 
the estimated value of nearly seven millions of dollars, 



have been distributed to the soldiers in the field or in 
hospitals. Of these branches of the Commission that 
at Philadelphia is one of the most important, and it is 
now proposed to give a sketch of its history, and modes 
of operation. 

Towards the close of the year 1861 — certain gen- 
tlemen of this City were appointed by the Central 
Commission, associate members, and proceeded at once 
to organize a branch of the Commission. 

At a meeting of the Piiiladelppiia Associates, 
held on the 7th of November, 1861, it was 

1. Resolved, That an Executive Committee of nine 
Associates, of whom three shall constitute a quorum, 
shall be appointed with power to add to their number 
to carry into effect and report, a plan of organization. 

2. Resolved, That the Executive Committee be in- 
structed to include in the plan of organization, the 
power to appoint additional Associates for Pennsyl- 
vania, of the Central Body a Committee on Finance, 
a Committee on Hospital Supplies, a Medical and 
Sanitary Committee, to act upon all questions relat- 
ing to hospital location, administration, and supplies ; 
also to include in said plan such other -measures and 
regulations as the Executive Committee may deem 
advisable in order to effect the general purposes of 
the Association. 

Pursuant to these E^esolutions, an Executive Com- 
mittee of the following Gentlemen was appointed. 

H. Binney, Jr. Esq., Chairman ; M. W. Baldwin ; 
Ilev. H. A. Boardman, D. D. ; John C. Cresson; Hon. 



J. I. Clark Hare; E. Hartshorne, M. D. ; John F. 
Meigs, M. D. ; Samuel Powel ; Tliomas T. Tasker. 

At a meeting of the Executive Committee held on 
the 11th of November, 1861, for the purpose of com- 
pleting a plan of organization, a Committee of Hospi- 
tal Supplies, and a Committee on Medical and 
Sanitary Inspection were appomted. 

The Committee on Supplies, through a sub-com- 
mittee appointed for that purpose, opened a Deposi- 
tory at 1235 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, on the 
11th of December 1861, for the purpose of receiving 
the contributions of the public. A large quantity of 
supplies which had been sent here for distribution 
among the soldiers, had accumulated in the store-house 
of a benevolent firm of this city. These were imme- 
diately placed at our disposal. The Committee made 
suitable appeals to the public, and supplies soon began 
to flow in freely, and continued to do so during the 
winter and following spring. By the month of June, 
1862, the contributions of the public were coming in 
so rapidly and the business of the office had so increased 
that it was deemed necessary to appoint a General 
Superintendent to take the immediate charge of the 
work. Accordingly, Mr. William Piatt, Jr., was ap- 
pointed to that position, and entered upon his duties 
at the close of the month of June. Through the great 
exertions and excellent management of Mr. Piatt, 
during the summer and autumn of 1862, the supplies 
not only of material of all kinds, but also of money, 
greatly increased. 

Our Army at this time being in Maryland, and our 
State threatened with invasion, Philadelphia became 
an important point for the accumulation, purcliase and 



shipping of supplies. The business at our Depository 
was consequently much increased. The arrival and 
departure of the transports at that time in the service 
of the Commission, and the labor incident to fitting 
them -out, was another important work to be done at 
this point. All this was most admirably performed by 
the Superintendent. Late in September, Mr. Piatt, 
having made arrangements for the forwarding of sup- 
plies received at our Depository, went to Antietam, and 
there in the service of the Commission as Field Agent, 
so over-exerted himself as to bring on a fever which 
terminated his valuable life on the 22d of November, 
1862.* 

In December 1862, the Depository was removed to 
No. 2T, South Sixth street, and the Executive Com- 
mittee on the 29th of the same month, appointed 
the present General Superintendent to succeed Mr. 
Platt.f About this time our attention was called to the 
great success in collecting supplies which had attended 
the efforts of Ladies in other cities. A number of 
ladies here voluntered to undertake the work, if the 
gentlemen of the Commission thought proper to place 
it in their hands. On the 24th of February. 1863, 



* A number of the Philadelphia Associates of the Commission have 
rendered valuable and efficient personal service as relief agents in the 
field, during and immediately after the great battles in which the Army 
of the Potomac has been engaged — on the Peninsula, at Antietam^ 
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. Among the number 
may be named Drs. E. Hartshorne, D. Gilbert and John H. Packard, 
and Messrs. Charles J. Stille, Horace Binney, Jr;, George M. Conarroe, 
Horace H. Furness and Atherton Blight. One of the Associates, Mr. 
J. Warner Johnson, has been for nearly a year past serving as a volun- 
teer in the Field Relief Corps of the Commission in Virginia. The 
eminent services of another, Mr. C. B. Barclay, are too well known to 
require comment. 

t For resolutions on Mr. Piatt's death see Appendix. 



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the President of the Commisdon visited Philadelphia 
for the purpose of delivering an Address, on the sub- 
ject of the Commission and its work, and of organiz- 
ing a Ladies Branch. This was accomplished imme- 
diately after the address of Dr. Bellows : a suitable 
location (1307 Chestnut street,) was selected, and on 
the 26th of March, 1863, the Committee on Supplies 
transferred the whole department to the Women's 
Pennsylvania Branch. 

The work of the Women's Branch is conducted by 
an Executive Committee, two of whom with the Presi- 
dent, Secretary and such Aids as may be required, at- 
tend at the Hooms daily. The Corresponding Secre- 
tary, devotes herself to forming Societies throughout 
our Department, obtaining the services of suitable 
persons as Associate Managers in the several Counties, 
and keeping them well advised of the operations of the 
Commission. A column and a half or more of two of 
our weekly papers are at her disposal for this purpose. 
The Association has appointed thirty-seven Associate 
Managers in Pennsylvania, six in New Jersey, and 
three in Delaware, making forty-seven in all. This 
number is being constantly added to, and it is proposed 
to have one in each county of the Eastern portion of 
Pennsylvania, the Southern portion of New Jersey, 
and the State of Delaware. 

The Women's Pennsylvania Branch has at the pre- 
sent time the following auxiliaries, 

Constantly contributing Societies, 209 

Occasionally do. do. 22 

Organized Aid do. 63 

Corresponding Associations, 93 

In all 394 



Of this number only one hundred and ten had been 
connected with the Commission previous to the forma- 
tion of the Women's Branch. 

The subjoined statement shows the receipts of the 
Philadelphia Agency. 

The Committee on Medical and Sanitary In- 
spection appointed by the Philadelphia Associates 
after encountering some difficulties proceeded with 
their work in the city and vicinity, but the more com- 
plete system adopted by the Commission soon after, 
has rendered their labors comparatively light. Dr. 
J. M. Corse, an Associate member, has collected and 
forwarded for the use of the Commission, nearly three 
hundred packages of vaccine matter, an amount, which, 
with a liberal allowance for waste, will vaccinate four 
thousand five hundred persons. He is still collecting, 
and will be prepared this month to furnish the Com- 
mission with a sufficient quantity to vaccinate two 
thousand more. 

Special Relief. 

When the Depository in Philadelphia was first 
opened, the work of Special Relief was confined to 
such trifiing aid in the way of food, clothing or trans- 
portation, as the Committee in charge could furnish, 
but no systematic plan was adopted. After the ap- 
pointment of a General Superintendent, the work 
was done in a rather more satisfactory manner ; 
the cases requiring relief were examined into, and a 
person sent with those leaving the city to the cars and 
boats to procure transportation. During the summer 
of 1862, the care of those arriving on transports of 



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the Commisision, largely engaged tlie attention of the 
Superintendent. He was always on the spot when the 
vessels arrived, with ambulances, stretchers, and suffi- 
cient force to convey the men from the steam'ers to 
Hospitals. In this work he was materially aided by 
the Fire Companies of the city, who upon the arrival 
of a transport at any time day or night, rang their 
bells to summon their fellow members, and repaired 
to the spot with their ambulances. A number of 
Relief A srents and Nurses were also sent on the trans- 
ports, most of wiiom rendered their services gra- 
tuitously. 

The question of establishing a home in Philadelphia, 
has frequently engaged the attention of the Officers 
of the Commission. It was thought best however, 
first to examine very thoroughly into the necessity for 
so doing, and through the kind assistance of Mr.Knapp, 
Mr. O. C. Bullard was ordered here for the purpose 
of making the necessary inquires. In this work, Mr. 
Bullard was assisted by Mr. P. P. Randolph, an Asso- 
ciate member of the Commission. These gentlemen 
visited our volunteer Hospitals, Refreshment Saloons, 
and other places for the relief of our soldiers, and 
after spending two weeks in so doing, reported that 
the ground was so well covered by these organizations 
that it was "inexpedient to establish a ' Home,' at any 
rate, at the present time."* 

During the Autumn of 1863, the work of Special 
Relief was performed by the Relief Committee of the 
Women's Branch assisted by the Superintendent. This 
plan was so very unsatisfactory, that the Executive 

* Since this report was made, the admirable " Soldier's Home," at 
the corner of Crown and Race streets, has been established. 



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Committee authorized the appointment of a Special 
Relief Agent and Hospital Visitor. Col. Clement 
Soest was appointed to the position on the 14th of De- 
cember last, and the whole Special Relief Department 
is now in his charge. Sufficient time has not elapsed 
yet to enable us to report upon his work, but there is 
every indication that it will be efficient and useful.''^ 

* Since the above was written, the Special Relief Agent's first report, 
for the month ending January 14th, 1864, has been'received. 245 cases 
came under his notice in that time. These cases were principally of the 
following kinds, viz. : 

/. Indiouliial soldiers in the service. 

(a.) Tiiose not having their descriptive lists, and therefore unable to 
draw pay or clothing. In many instances, proper attention is not paid 
by surgeons and by regimental officers to procuring descriptive lists for 
the soldiers, and the families of married soldiers particularly have to 
suffer greatly from such neglect of duty. 

(b.) Those hav^iug overdrawn their clothing account, and therefore 
unable to procure any more clothing. Such men in many instances 
lost their clotliing on the battle-field, after being wounded, had to draw 
new clothing, and consequently overdrew their clothing account. 

(c.) Those sufferings from diseases, (rheumatism, &c.,) which make it 
necessary for them to wear entire woolen underclothing, which the 
Government does not furnish. 

(d.) Those waiting to be transferred to the Invalid Corps, or to be 
discharged, and therefore unable to draw from the Government. 

(e.) Those ordered to do guard or other duty while under medical 
treatment, and needing warmer clothing than that furnished by Govern- 
ment to protect them against exposure, which they were unable to 
purchase on account of not having received pay for four, six or eight 
months. 

(f.) Those discharged from hospitals and ordered to rejoin their 
regiments during the late cold season, and needing extra clothing to 
protect them against sudden exposure after having been in a hospital 
for months. 

(g.) Those remaining in hospitals on account of wounds, after their 
term of service has expired, and therefore not being entitled to draw 
anything from the Government. 

//. Individual soldiers discharged. 

Principally men who have been discharged on account of disability 



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During the past year a large number of cases of 
men desiring free transportation have been inquired 
into by us. Where we have found them deserving we 
have frequently asked the railroad companies to pass 
them without charge, and in no case has such a re- 
quest been refused. These companies are certainly 
entitled to our warmest thanks. 

In this connection we should not omit to mention 
the Relief Committee of the Womens' Branch. Their 
work has been principally to superintend the cutting 
out and making such material as the Commission fur- 
nishes for the purpose. The garments are given to 
poor women, the wives and widows of soldiers who are 
in distressed circumstances, and a liberal compensation 
is made to them for their labor. At the present time 
about eighty women are partially supported in this 
manner. 



The following is a 


list of 


articles furnished 


by them 


to the Commission, to December 31st, 


1863. 




Prs. Drawers 








1175 


Sheets, 








1157 


Bed Sacks, 








2171 


Pillows, 








210 


Arm Slings, 








230 


In all, 








4,945 



either througti wounds or disease, who are waiting for approval of their 
claims for pensions, etc., who are unable to work, and in most instances 
have a family to support. 

The Special lielief Agent visits the hospitals daily, and visits dis- 
charged resident soldiers at their homes. In all cases the fullest 
investigation is made. The Women's Pennsylvania Branch has issued 
npon his request in these cases, 280 shirts, 209 pairs of drawers, 172 
pairs woolen socks, besides a considerable number of coats, pantaloons, 
vests, gloves, caps, canes, crutches and other articles, amounting in 
value to about $800 during the month. 



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The Committee has also been able in numerous cases 
to provide a temporary home, and transportation for 
the wives and families of soldiers and refugees whose 
means had become exhausted from unforeseen circum- 
stances, when they reached our city. They have also 
under their control several hundred tons of coal, which 
they are now distributing to the families of soldiers. 
The necessary funds to carry on this work witli 
the exception of about fourteen hundred dollars, have 
been raised from sources independent of the treasirry 
of the Commission. 

Hospital Directory. 

The Hospital Directory in Philadelphia was pre- 
pared to answer inquiries on the lOthof Mea'ch, 1863. 
At the present time we have on our books 27,843 
names, viz.: 

New Eaglami States 3,463 

New York 5,931 

Pennsylvania 12,184 

Other States East of Mountains . . 1,885 

Western States 2,806 

U. S. Regulars 988 

Miscellaneous Organizations . . . 586 

Total 27,843 

Total number of inquiries and answers in Correspondence 
Book, Dec. 31st, 1863, 1,001. 

Information given 66 i 

No information 308 

AAvaiting reply 29 

Total. 1,001 



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The amount of information daily given on subjects 
connected with our Army and Navy, is very large, and 
assumes so many forms that no accurate record could 
be kept of it * The inquires of this kind average at 
least twenty-five per week, or fully one thousand to the 
present time. The experience in Philadelphia as else- 
where, has proved the great value of this department 
of the Commission's work. A more complete account 
of the Directory will be found embodied in the Ke- 
port of Mr. John Bowne, made to the Central Com- 
mission in Washington. 

Protective War Claim and Pension Agency. 

The Protective War Clahi and Pinsion Agency 
had its origin in the desire to effect a prompt settlement 
of the claims of soldiers and their relatives upon the 
Government, and to aiford protection against the exor- 
bitant demands too often made by Claim Agents. The 
measure met with the cordial apx^roval of the Depart- 
ments at AYashington, whose labors it tended to facili- 



* The following letter recently received, in answer to inquiries made 
through the branch of the Commission at Louisville, by Mr. AVilson, 
Chief Clerk of the Philadelphia office, will give a fair idea of one of 
the kinds of information furnished by the Hospital Directory Depart- 
ment. 

United States Sanitary Commission, 

Louisville, Ky., January 20th, 1864. 
J. W. AViLSON, Philada. 

Dear Sir: John Pfeiifer, of Company B, Ninth Ohio Infantry, was 
captured on the 20th of September, 1863, in the battle of Chicamauga, 
Ga,, and is now held as a prisoner of war at Richmond, Ya. His Cap- 
tain received a letter from him from the prison in Richmond. 
^ Yours, truly, 

H. S. HOLBROOK. 



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tate by diminibhing the opportunities for the prosecu- 
tion of fraudulent claims. A Board of Managers was 
organized, and an Examining Surgeon and Solicitor 
were appointed in May, 1863, and in the same month 
an office was opened in the building occupied by the 
U. S. Sanitary Commission, at No. 1307 Chestnut 
street, Philadelphia. The result has fully demonstrated 
the value of the enterprise. Without any special 
effort to call public attention to the work of the Agency 
nearly one thousand claims were presented to it in the 
first six months of its operation, and the business has 
shown each month a steady increase. Two-thirds of 
these claims were preferred by soldiers coming from 
all parts of the loyal States, who had been honorably 
discharged from the United States Service, by reason 
of wounds or sickness incurred therein ; and the re- 
mainder were made by the relatives of deceased sol- 
diers. In addition to its regular work of prosecuting 
claims for pension and bounty, the Agency has been 
instrumental in" obtaining their descriptive lists for sol- 
diers who had lain months in hospitals without pay, 
by reason of the absence of those papers, and in^cor- 
recting through the aid of its correspondents at Wash- 
ington, errors in the final statements of discharged 
soldiers, which would otherwise have, occasioned them 
serious loss. 

By an arrangement with the paymaster. Major Tag- 
gart, and the U. S. District Attorney, the back pay due 
prisoners of war at E-ichmond, is also procured for their 
wives or mothers, upon sufficient proof being made of 
such captivity, and of the claiment's identity. These 
matters are all adjusted and payments made without 
any cost to the applicant, except a trifling fee paid to a 



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magistrate for executing the necessary affidavits. The 
saving thus effected to parties who are in nearly every 
case, of very limited means, may be computed already 
at thousands of dollars. A few instances, selected at 
random, will effectually prove this. A woman residing 
in Philadelphia, whose husband died in the service 
about eighteen months ago, applied shortly after his 
death, to a fivm doing business as Claim Agents, who en- 
gaged to procure her pension and bounty for the snm 
of ten dollars. At the end of eighteen months, the}' 
lianded over to her the amount of her claim for boun- 
ty less a charge of twenty-five dollars for their services, 
and then told her that they had overlooked her claim 
for pension altogether. Another lady, the widow of 
an officer to whom large arrearages were due, but 
wdiose claim required very little proof, and that of the 
simplest sort, and was promptly adjusted by the De- 
partment, was forced to pay ten per cent, to a Claim 
Agent for its collection. Although a severe penalty is 
imposed by the Act of July llth, 1862, where the 
charge by an Attorney for prosecuting a pension claim 
exceeds five dollars; the provision is often evaded by 
charges for additional papers, w^hich are seldom re- 
quisite, if the claim is originally properly prepared. 
It is believed that a very moderate estimate of the 
saving of the ap]:)licant, upon every case adjusted 
through the Agency, would be at least ten dol- 
lars. In very many instances the gain is much 
greater. 

One great hindrance to the satisfactory adjustment 
of claims for the bounty and back pay of soldiers 
dying in the service, and it is feared, to the w^ork of 
enlisting recruits, is found in the tedious process to 



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which those claims are subjected before final action 
upon them is had at the second Auditor's Department 
At least a year must elapse from the date of the sol- 
dier's death before the bounty and back pay remaining 
unsettled, can be secured to his widow or children. 
This period is usually the one in which his loss is most 
felt pecuniarily by his family. Legislation upon this 
point, either in increasing the force of clerks in the 
Departments, or in simplifying the accounts of the 
army, is imperatively needed. To alleviate in some 
degree the distress caused by this delay, a sum of 
money has been set apart from the funds of the Com- 
mission, from which to advance small sums in very 
necessitous cases, upon claims on file at the Agency: 
but the relief thus afforded, it is manifest, must be very 
meagre and inadequate. 

No. of claims registered at the Agency to January 
1st, 1864, 1,103. 

Of the claims for Pensions, there were : 

For Invalid Soldiers ,. 355 

'' Widows : 151 

" Mothers ! 61 

" Guardians of minors 3 

570 

Of the claims for bounty and back pay, there were : 

* For Invalid Soldiers 209 

" Widows 138 

" Mothers 56 

" Fathers 98 

" Guardians and others 3T 

533 

Total 1,103 



* The claims of invalid soldiers for bounty will not be acted upon until an 
appropriation has been made by Congress, for their payment. 

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The claims transmitted, were for soldiers and others coming 
from nineteen different States of the Union, viz. : 
Members of Penns3'l?ania Regiments.... 7 74 

New York do ,...116 

" New Jersey do 56' 

^* Delaware do , 12 

*♦ Maine do 24 

'' Massachusetts, do 18 

Rhode Island, do 6 

** Vermont do 6 

" Connecticut do 5 

Ohio do 5 

*♦ Missouri do 2 

" Wisconsin do 4 

" Michigan do 12 

*' New Hampshire do 3 

*' Illinois do 2 

" Minnesota do 2 

*' East Virginia do 1 

" Dis. of Columbia do 1 

" Indiana do 4 

" Maryland do 3 

U. S. Regular do 45 

Total , 1 ,(8 



An analysis of the Treasurer's Report presents an 
interesting and encouraging view of the growth of 
confidence in the Commission's work on the part of 
contributors in Philadelphia. It will be observed that 
the large sum of $82,000 has been expended by the 
Philadelphia Agency, mainly for supplies. It is pro- 
per to remark in explanation, that the supphes pur- 
chased with this money, have been bought by order of 
the Officers of the Commission at Washington, and 
have been forwarded to points designated by them. 
The Philadelphia Branch has always been regarded by 
its Officers as an Agency of the Central Commission, 
in the strictest sense of that term. With the excep- 
tion of certain comparatively small sums expended for 



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local relief, they have considered all the funds collected 
by them as subject to the order and control of the Cen- 
tral Office, for the general purposes of the Commission. 
It has been found more convenient for several reasons, 
principally because Philadelphia was the nearest point 
to the Army of the Potomac, where a large fund was 
collected, that certain articles needed for that Army, 
should be purchased in this city : hence its treasury 
has been drawn upon by the Washington Office for this 
purpose, whenever it was found necessary. From the 
beginning, the Philadelphia Agency has maintained 
the policy of holding all its funds except those re- 
quired for local purposes, at the disposal of those 
Officers of the Commission whose duty it is to ascer- 
tain where the greatest need exists. It has never 
undertaken to spend money, or send supplies without 
being enlightened by the knowledge of those who are 
on the ground, and who can best judge in which por- 
tion of the field, the money or supplies will be most 
useful. 

Respectfully submitted, 

ROBERT M. LEWIS, 

General Superintendent. 

Philadelphia^ Feb. Ist., 1864. 



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Bejyori of Caleb Cope, Treasurer PliihideJpliia Agency, to 
January \st, 1864; 

Total amount of collections $119,682 04 

Remitted to Mr. G. T. Strong, treasurer.$10,500 00 - 
Paid Mr. Strong's draft, in favor of J. 

Babcock 40 00 

Kemitted to Mr. Strong, proceeds of 

Henry Ward Beecher's lecture 1,848 50 

Printing, advertising and stationery 2,566 07 

Special Relief 1,406 00 

Rent 1,858 77 

Clerk hire 2,216 38 

Traveling expenses 377 98 

Incidental expenses at depository includ- 
ing carpenter's work, freight, hauling 

and furniture ..,.. 1,468 47 

Miscellaneous, including collecting com- 
missions 1,914 20 

♦Tablet to the memory of the late super- 
intendent 300 00 

Paid for supplies, embracing material for 
clothing, provisions, fitting out trans- 
ports, &c •. 82,108 13 

Cash in Philadelphia Bank 13,075 54 

119,682 04 

Amount collected from 

Dec. 10, 1861 to July 1, 1862 $9,575 00 

July 1, 1862 to Jan. 1, 1863 37,819 55 

Jan. 1, 1863 to July 1, 1863 24,488 76 

July 1, 1863 to Jan 1, 1864 47,798 73 

Making a total of. $119,682 04 



^ The eminent services of Mr. Piatt were given without any compensation 
whatever, and it was deemed but a fitting mark of respect that the Sanitary 
Commission should erect this tablet to the memory of one whose life had 
been lost in the Commission's service. 



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KECEIPTS 

Of the Philadelphia Agency, including those in the Women's Penn- 
sylvania Branch from December lU/i, 1861, to January 1st, 1864. 

Articles. Number. Value. 

Apples, bushels 600 ^150 00 

Apple Butter, galls 46t 350 25 

Arrow Root, lbs 35 19 25 

Arnica, bottles 114 28 50 

Adhesive Plaster, yds 40 10 00 

Blankets, wool 6,352 15,880 00 

do gum 28 56 00 

Beef, Extract, cans, lbs... .10,1500 10,150 00 

do Tea do do 139 139 00 

do Soup do do 1,272 254 40 

do Roast do do 6,312 1,325 52 

do Assorted,do do 1,196 239 20 

do Corned, bbls 5 100 00 

do Dried, lbs 662 99 30 

Barley,lbs :....56 3 92 

Bread, loaves 166 13 28 

Butter, lbs 1,084 329 20 

Bed Ticks 4,735 7,812 75 

Bed Pans 1 1 00 

Bed Chairs 33 100 00 

Bandages, bbls 32 320 00 

Blouses, wool 25 37 50 

Brushes, hair 157 34 54 

Blinds and Shades, yds 1,268 665 70 

Broma, lbs 24 10 80 

Condensed Milk, lbs 21,852 5,468 00 

Crackers do 16,078 2,009 75 

Corn Starch do 5,682 568 20 

Cocoa do 915 366 00 

Chocolate do.., 2,304 806 40 

Coffee, ground... do 2,042 376 56 

Coffee, roasted. ..do 41 16 40 

Coffee, green do 67 20 10 

Coffee, extract of. do 741 370 50 

Candies do 32 12 80 

Cakes do 253 63 25 

Cheese do 395 59 25 

Candles do 195 31 20 

Catsup, bottles 446 Hi 50 



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Cranberries, bush 15 $60 00 

Cranberry Sauce cans 120 45 00 

Corn Meal, lbs 1*7,894 447 35 

Caps 202 101 00 

Coats, wool 309 1,236 00 

do thin 233 233 00 

Collars 266 26 60 

Crutches, pairs 878 316 18 

do spring do 2 9 00 

Canes 471 117 75 

Combs, course and fine 2,251 112 55 

Cigars 6,500 104 00 

Cushions and Pads 6,487 993 05 

Cologne, bottles 292 73 00 

Camphor, spirits of. 186 46 50 

Camp Stoves ...12 42 00 

Cooking utensils 56 65 

Drawers, wool, prs 3,472 7,076 00 

do cotton flannel 1,046 1,307 50 

do cotton 14,688 14,688 00 

Eggs, doz 1,047 209 40 

Egg nogg, bottles 

Flannel, gray, yds 216 102 60 

Fans 12,141 364 23 

Farinaceous food 4,688 466 80 

Fruits, preserved, jars 1,371 685 50 

Fruits, dried, bbls 278 4,170 00 

Farina, lbs 253 25 30 

Figs, do 126 21 50 

Flour, bbls 11 88 00 

Ginger, ext. of Jamaica 2,653 552 50 

Gelatine, pkgs 51 12 75 

Grapes, hothouse, lbs 27 27 00 

Games 557 55 70 

Hams, lbs 6,922 899 86 

Hominy. do 245 14 70 

Honey do 45 13 50 

Handkerchiefs 21.508 2,580 96 

Hats '.. 18 4 50 

Havelocks 160 48 00 

Jellies and Preserves, jars... 7, 492 3,746 00 

Lemons, boxes 58 319 00 

Limes, bbls 3 48 00 

Lemon Syrup, bottles 310 77 50 

Lemon Juice do 517 193 87 

Lard, lbs 165 23 10 

Lanterns 99 37 12 



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Liquorice, lbs H $5 50 

Lint, bbls 37 1,110 00 

Linen, old, do o3 495 00 

Leg boxes 26 10 40 

Mittens & gloves, wool, prs.. 1,659 414 75 

Mosquito netting, pieces 518 906 50 

Mattresses 150 375 00 

Neckties 4G1 27 66 

Needle books and pincush's.2,100 262 50 

Oat meal 1,043 83 44 

Oranges, boxes 14 56 00 

Ovsters, spiced, cans 243. 101 25 

Oil silk, yds 14 14 00 

Pillows 5,770 8,655 00 

Pillow cases 6,401 1,920 00 

Pillow ticks 306 91 80 

Pants wool, prs 465 1,162 50 

do 'thin 167 250 50 

Pails, wooden 50 15 00 

Pipes 187 3 00 

Prunes, lbs 62 U 16 

Pickles, galls 265 195 75 

do kegs 29 108 75 

do cans and jars 2,366 1,183 00 

Pepper sauce, bottles 139 34 75 

Peppermint, essence 122 15 25 

Quilts and comfortables 2,646 4,762 80 

Kice, lbs.... 364 29 12 

Kice flour, do 176 17 6U 

Kocking chairs 75 187 50 

Rusk, bbls 34 170 00 

Rags, do 20 160 00 

Shirts, wool 11,828 20,699 00 

do cotton flannel 1,128 1,768 50 

do cotton 20,587 18,013 63 

do hospital 2,306 2,117 50 

Sheets 6,487 6,487 00 

do flannel 12 15 00 

Scarfs and wrappings 211 52 75 

Slippers, prs 2,729 1,091 60 

Shoes, do 120 180 00 

Socks, wool, do 15,204 6,081 60 

do cotton, do 7,104 1,420 80 

Suspenders 112 28 00 

Slings 1,930 103 00 

Splints 959 383 60 

Spirometers 2 53 00 



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Sponges, lbs 51 $102 00 

Sugar, white, do 2,501 400 16 

do brown, do 1,301 130 10 

Syrups, assorted, bottles 1,081 270 25 

Sardines, boxes 40 18 20 

Sauces, bottles 81 26 73 

Shields, enameled 12 12 00 

Sausages, lbs 290 36 25 

Scrappel 114 6 84 

Sour Krout, bbls 10 60 00 

Sweet oil, galls 2 4 50 

Spices, assorted, lbs 390 234 00 

Saccharine lemon juice, lbs.... 155 77 50 

Soaps, of all sorts. do. ..2,953 442 95 

Salt, bags 26 6 50 

Teas, lbs 377 310 60 

Tapioca, do 50 10 00 

Tripe, spiced, cans 360 108 00 

Tamarinds, kegs 28 140 00 

do lbs 516 51 60 

Towels and napkins 10,904 1,644 60 

Tobacco, lbs 1,474 884 40 

Tin cups 2,426 Ill 30 

Tin basins 299 74 75 

Tin plates 841 52 56 

Tea spoons 1,420 28 40 

Vinegar, bottles 191 23 87 

do galls 24 6 00 

do Raspberry, bottles. 1,268 418 44 

do do "^ galls 17 21 25 

Vests, wool 149 74 50 

do thin 135 54 00 

Wrappers 2,377 4,753 50 

Washing machines 3 30 00 

Wringers 2 18 00 

STATIONERY, &c. 

Books and Pamphlets, boxes. ..40 200 00 

Newspapers 3,593 25 00 

Writing paper, reams 34 85 00 

Envelopes 10,475 23 57 

Postage stamps 416 12 48 

Ink, bottles.. 86 21 50 

Pens, doz 113 5 00 

LIQUORS. 

Alcohol, galls 11 11 00 

Brandy do 156 858 00 



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Brandy, bottles 1,185 $1,481 25 

do cherry 148 74 00 

do blackberry 142 71 00 

do do galls 35 70 00 

Bay rum, bottles 690 276 00 

Cherry Cordial, do 179 89 50 

do do galls 12 27 00 

Gin do 45 135 00 

do bottles 136 91 12 

Porter and ale, bbls 107 963 00 

Rum, Jamaica, bottles 110 96 00 

Wines, foreign, galls.... 1,117 2,513 25 

do do bottles 1,501 1,125 50 

do domestic do 1,997 499 25 

do do galls 149 149 00 

Whiskey do 1,277 1,915 50 

do do bottles, 437... 174 80 

VEGETABLES. 

Peaches, cans 513 213 75 

Beans cans 72 22 50 

Beans, bushels 27 81 00 

Cabbage, heads 161 12 88 

Onions, bushels 388 388 00 

Potatoes, bbls 43 107 50 

do cans 2 32 00 

Vegetables, preserved, do 143 42 90 

do mixed, bbl 133 399 00 

Pine Apples 120 45 00 

TRANSPORTATION. 

Horses 6 1,200 00 

Wagons, sutler 3 420 00 

do covers 5 85 00 

do tongues 4 18 00 

Harness, setts 3 142 50 

Halters 6 9 00 

Whips 3 3 00 

Hay, lbs 766 9 75 

Oats, bush 48 28 80 

Bags 5 4 50 

Wagons, heavy 4 655 00 



Total, $197,320 85 

Of the above amount about $75,000 were articles purchased 
v^ith the funds of this branch of the Commission, ana the balance 
were contributed. 

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Appendix. 

This report of the operations of the Philadelphia, Agency 
would be incomplete without a more particular reference 
to the loss sustained by the Commission in the death of 
Mr. Piatt. The subjoined resolutions of the Philadelphia 
Associates, passed at the time of his death, exhibit in fitting 
terms their appreciation of his virtues, and services. The 
mural tablet to his memory has since been erected in St. 
Thomas' Church. 

At a meeting of the Philadelphia Associates of the U. S. 
Sanitary Commission, held on November 26, 1862, the follow- 
ing resolutions were unanimously adopted: 

Resolved^ That the Philadelphia Associates of the Sanitary 
Commission have learned, with the deepest sorrow, of the 
death of their late most faithful superintendent, AVilliam 
Piatt, Jr., Esquire, who fell a victim to disease contracted 
on the battle-fields of Maryland, in the service of the 
Commission, and in the discharge of the highest duties 
of humanity and patriotism. 

Resolved, That the Associates desire to record their high 
appreciation of the character of Mr. Piatt, and of his 
invaluable labors in the cause of the Sanitary Commission. 

Accepting the invitation of the Executive Committee, in 
June last, to undertake the superintendence of the business 
of the Philadelphia agency, Mr. Piatt devoted all the force 
of a highly energetic, though gentle character, to the dis- 
charge of the duties of his post. Giving his whole time, and 
applying remarkable vigor to the business of the agency, he 
soon brought it to a state of efficiency not previously reached, 
while his judicious and eff'ective applications to the friends 
of the Commission brought its claims under general notice 



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in Philadelphia, and rapidly filled its treasury, so that the 
contributions, which, on his entering on his ofiice, in June 
last, were but eight thousand dollars, had at the time of his 
death, in Kovember, exceeded the sum of forty thousand 
dollars, an increase which the Associates ascribe almost 
wholly to the labors of Mr. Piatt, and of an agent of his 
own designation. 

All the services of Mr. Piatt were rendered gratuitously. 
When the battles in Maryland were impending in September 
last, Mr. Piatt hastened to Washington, and volunteered to 
take charge of a wagon train of hospital stores, for use in 
the field. Visiting and supplying the hospitals at Eockville, 
Frederick and Middletown, and reinforced with other supplies 
forwarded by the Commission, he left Middletown at eleven 
o'clock at night, on the ITth of September, and proceeded 
with his train of wagons to Boonsborough, and thence to 
Keedysville, and arrived at the headquarters of the army at 
nine o'clock the next morning. His own modest ofiicial 
report of his services omits mention of the fact that, as he 
came within sound of the cannon, he quickened his speed, 
driving the leading wagon himself, and when darkness 
threatened to delay the train, he left it and walked in 
advance, carrying a lantern, and compelling the reluctant 
drivers to follow. 

The supplies of the Commission thus brought to the battle- 
field by Mr. Piatt anticipated those forwarded by the 
government, and were at once distributed by the medical 
director and surgeons of the army, to the unspeakable relief 
of the suiferers. 

But Mr. Piatt's earnestness was not satisfied with mere 
direction and supervision. On the 20th of September, as the 
ambulances appeared bringing the sufi*erers from the bloody 
field of Antietam, but unaccompanied by competent assistance 
for their removal, Mr, Piatt gave himself up for a long time 
to this arduous service, carrying the wounded in his arms to 
places of shelter, and there rendering them the tenderest 
offices of a nurse. Thus engrossed, he overtasked himself, 



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and through fatigue and exposure contracted the disease 
which, on the 22d November, brought to a close, in his 37th 
year, his short but well spent life. 

To those who knew and loved him in the relations. of 
private life, and particularly as an active member of the 
church, which he adorned by a consistent Christian conver- 
sation, no public record is needed of his modest virtues. 
But as he fell in the service of his country — a willing 
offering in the noblest cause — his life has become part of its 
public history, and it is therefore 

Resolved, That the Philadelphia Associates of the Sanitary 
Commission desire to perpetuate their estimate of the services 
and worth of their late friend and officer by some enduring 
memorial, and they therefore most respectfully request the 
family of Mr. Piatt, and the vestry of St. Thomas' Church, 
Whitemarsh, (of which he was warden,) to allow them to 
erect in that church a mural tablet to his memory. 

Resolved^ That the foregoing resolutions be communicated 
to the family of Mr. Piatt, and to the vestry of St. Thomas' 
Church, with the assurance of the most sincere sympathy of 
the Associates in their loss. 

Resolved J That the forgoing resolutions be published. 

HORACE BINNEY, Jr., Chairman. 
Edward Hart^horne, Secretary. 



R E P O R T 



GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT 



PHILADELPHIA BRANCH 



U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 



JANUAEY 1st, 1865 



PHILADELPHIA: 
KING & BAIRD, PRINTER?, No. 007 SANSO]\I STREET. 

1 8 . J . 



v/ 



OFFICEES 



IT. S. SAXITAEY COMMISSION 



PHILADELPHIA. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE PHILADA. ASSOCL\TES. 

HORACE BINNEY, Jr., Chairman, 
EDWARD HARTSHORNE, M. D., Secretary, 
CALEB COPE, Treasurer, 

M. W. Baldwin, Samuel Powel, 

Rev. H. a. Boardman, D.D., Thomas T. Tasker, 

John C. Cresson, Samuel V. Merrick, 

J. I. Clark Hare, William M. Tilghman, 

John F. Meigs, M. D., Prof. Fairman Rogers, 

Charles J. Stille, Robert M. Lewis. 



ROBERT M. LEWIS, General Superintendent, 

Philadelpliia Agency, No. 1307 Chestnut Street. 



wome:n'\s pexxsylva^ia beaxcii. 

CALEB COPE, President and Treasurer. 
ROBERT M, LEWIS, Secretary. 



SUPPLY DEPARTMENT, RELIEF DEPARTMENT, 

Mrs. M. B. GRIER, Mrs. J. TEA'IS, 

Chairman of Executive Com. Chairman of Relief Com. 



COMMITTEE ON COREESPONDENCE. 



i^E]srjsrs^5riL.-v^^^3sri^^. 



FIRST SECTION. 

Miss. S. B. DUNLAP. 

Cleai field, Centre, Elk, McKean, Jefferson, Potter, Cameron and 

Clinton Counties. 

SECOND SECTION. 
Mrs. E. LATHROP. 

Bradford, Tioga, Lycoming, Union, Snyder, Northumberland, Mon- 
tour and Sullivan Counties. 

THIRD SECTION. 

Mrs. GEORGE PLITT. 

Monroe, Pike, Wayne, Carbon, Susquehanna, Columbia, Luzerne and 

Wyoming Counties. 

FOURTH SECTION. 
Mrs. L. DELAFIELD. 

Delaware, Chester, Montgomery, Berks, Northampton, Bucks, Lehigh 
and Schu3ikill Counties. 

FIFTH SECTION. 

Mrs. ISAAC HAZLEHURST. 

Adams, Cumlierland, Franklin, Perry, Lebancm, Dauphin, York and 

Lancaster Counties. 

SIXTH SECTION. 
Mrs. E. D. GILLESPIE. 

Fulton, Bedford, Somerset, Cambria, Juniata, Mifflin, Huntingdon and 
Blair Counties. 

SEVENTH SECTION. 

Miss. R. W. MORRIS. 

Philadelphia Count3\ 

SOUTHERN PORTION OF NEW JERSEY. 
Mrs. p. M. CLAPP. 

D K L A W A K E . 

Mrs. C. GRAFF. 



PROTECTIVE 

WAR CLAIM AND PENSION AGENCY. 



Ohai?^man of Foard of (X)i rector i 

WM. M. TILGHMAN. 

Soliciior, 

W. K ASHMAN. 

Jlssistant Solicitor, 

JAMES W. HAZLEHURST. 

Examining- Surgeon, 

H. LENNOX HODGE, M. D. 



HOSPITAL DIEECTOEY DEPAETMENT 

Superintend.ent, 

JOHN W. WILSON. 



SPECIAL EELIEF DEPAETMEXT. 

Special I^elief Jigent, 

Colonel CLEMENT SOEST. 

Storeheeper , 

WILSON J. CARTER. ' 



OFPIOE, 1307 CHESTNUT STEEET, PHILADA. 



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Tl E T» O R T 



GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT, 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATES. 



JANUARY 5th, 186S. 



U S. Sanitary Commission, Philadelphia Agency, 
loOt Chestnut Street, Jan. 1st, 1865. 

To the Executive Committee of the 

Philadelphia Braach of the U. S. Sanitary Commission. 

Gentlemen : 
I I have the honor to lay before you a report of the 

I operations of this Branch of the Commission for the 

\ year 1864. Previous to doing so, however, it may be 

I well to say a word respecting the general work of the 

! Commission. ' 

j During the past year the Sanitary Commission has 

I been, as heretofore, the great channel through which 

I the contributions of the humane and patriotic people 

I of our country have reached the soldier. The exten- 

I sive scale on which our military operations have been 

conducted during this campaign has caused an in- 
creased demand upon the Commission, in almost every 
I department. Our Homes and Lodges have never 

I been fuller. With a corps of Agents in the field, 

strengthened in numbers, and provided more liberally 
than ever with comforts for the men, there is still 
much left to be done. Our offices for the collection 



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of Pensions, Bounty, and Back-pay are at all times 
crowded. Everywhere the demands upon us increase. 
Thus far the means to accomplish the work have been 
generously given to us. The very large sums realized 
by the great Fairs, held during the past year, have 
enabled the Commission not only to make good a 
falling off which has taken place in the supplies con- 
tributed through the various agencies, but also to ex- 
tend its operations materially. 

The financial statement, published by order of the 
Commission in December last, shows that the value 
of the supplies contributed from June 1, 1861 to 
October 1, 1864, was $7,134,661.15, and the amount 
of money for the same period w^as $3,083,124 58, 
making a grand total of money and supplies of 
$10,217,785.73. The actual cost of distributing 
these supplies has been four and eighty-eight hun- 
dredeths per centum upon their value. No portion 
of the proceeds of " The Great Central Fair," held in 
Philadelphia are included in this statement. The 
amount received from that source still remains in the 
possession of the authorities of the Fair, with the 
exception of $86,000, nearly all of which has been 
expended by the Philadelphia Branch, for the general 
purposes of the Commission. 

In this growing work of the Sanitary Commission, 
it is gratifying to be able to report to you that the 
Philadelphia Branch has not failed to do its portion. 
While the largely augmented demands for the general 
purposes of the Commission have always been promptly 
met by us, during the year, our work in this city has 
been extended and enlarged in every department. 



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The supplies, under the management of the Women's 
Pennsylvania Branch, continue to come in freely, not- 
withstanding the high price of material. The busi- 
ness of the Protective War-claim Agency grows 
rapidly. The Directory and Special Eelief Depart- 
ments have both required additional force to meet the 
growing demands upon them. 

One important portion of our w^ork, in common 
with the other Branches of the Commission, is the 
judicious purchase of the immense amount of sup- 
plies now needed for our use. In this we have 
the choice of the markets of all our great cities. It 
frequently happens that Philadelphia, having easy 
access to the two armies operating in Virginia, be- 
comes the best point to procure supplies. In obedi- 
ence to the orders of the central office, large purchases 
have been made here during the year, and sent for- 
ward. Several vessels have been chartered, loaded, 
and dispatched to City Point. 

In response to numerous calls, a number of gentle- 
men have been sent from here to enter the Field 
Pelief Service of the Commission ; some merely for 
an emergency, others for the campaign. The need 
for additional help usually comes upon us suddenly, 
and must be supplied promptly. It is no inconsider- 
able task at such times to select from the many 
gentlemen applying, those best suited for the arduous 
duties imposed upon them. The reports of some of 
those returned have been received at this office. 
They bear satisfactory evidence of the zeal and fidelity 
with w^hich the work committed to them has been 
performed. 



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The following is a list of the gentlemen who have 
entered the Field-service of the Commission from 
Philadelphia : — 

During the year 1864. 
Dr. C. H. Vontagen entered the service May ^, 1864. 
Mr. Wm. F. Jenks 
Rev. Jos. A. Stone 
Mr. W. H. Holstem 
Mr. T. Mason Mitchell " 

Mr. Charles Winslow " " May 22, 1864. 

Mr. Lemuel J. Deal 
Mr. C. E. Griffith 
Mr. J. H. Eccleston 
Mr. H. J. W. Allen 

Mr. Royal Marshall " '' May 24, 1864. 

Major C. F. Howes 

Dr. Horace Homer " "' " " 

Mr. Cortlandt Whitehead " 
Mr. Henry C. Garrison " 

Mr. W. W. Johnson " ^•' July 4, 1864. 

Mr. S. C. Remindino 
Mr. W. T. Clayton 

Mr. W. J. Bridells '' " July 7, 1864. 

Mr. L.S.Clark 
Rev. Albra Wadleigh " 

Mr. Wm. Graff " " Sept. 24, 1864. 

Mr. W. A. Runkle " " Oct. 1, 1864. 

Mr. Albert Caclwallader " 

Mr. F. McDowell " " Oct. 2, 1864. 

Dr. H. T. Rowland " " Oct. 5, 1864. 

Mr. Alex. Kern 



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THE WOMEN'S PENSSYLYANIA BRANCH. 

Supply Department. — The Executive Committee 
of the AVomen's Pemisylvania Branch, having charge 
of the supply department, has, during the past year, 
retained nearly its original organization. The resig- 
nation of their corresponding secretary having ren- 
dered some action necessary to fill so important a 
vacancy, it v^as deemed expedient to place the whole 
correspondence in the hands of a competent Com- 
mittee, among whom the w^ork is systematically di- 
vided. Associate managers have been appointed in 
nearly every county in this department, which includes 
forty-nine counties of Pennsylvania, the southern part 
of New Jersey, and the State of Delaware. Fifty-four 
associate managers in all. It is believed that the 
present plan of thoroughly cultivating the field by 
corresponding with the people, as well as sending 
canvassing agents among them, will yield a rich 
harvest of comfort for the sick and wounded soldiers 
of the Union. The Committee report that while the 
long continuance of the Avar has of course caused the 
faith and zeal of some to wax cold, yet on the whole 
there has been a steady growth of energetic liberality, 
as is evinced by the suppKes contributed. This de- 
partment numbers three hundred and fifty auxihary 
societies, besides a considerable number of individual 
contributors, who send boxes with almost the fre- 
quency observed by active societies. During the year, 
twenty-one hundred and ninety-nine boxes and 
packages, valued at about one hundred and ten 



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thousand dollars, have been received at the rooms. 
Eight hundred and seventy-five boxes have been dis- 
patched to various points v^here they were needed, 
besides an enormous aggregate of issues for the relief 
of individual soldiers applying at the rooms of the 
Commission. Large supplies have also been sent to 
the various hospitals in this military department. 

At the time the Great Central Fair was held, it 
was feared that the extraordinary efforts then being 
made by our societies would so exhaust their resources 
that but little could be expected from them for a long 
time. The result has not justified this apprehension ; 
for while there was but a temporary falling off of the 
receipts, the wide-spread interest excited by the Fair 
in the work of the Sanitary Commission, has stimula- 
ted the efforts of many who before had done little or 
nothing for its support. 

The list of issues, which will be found subjoined, 
includes those of the Women's Pennsylvania Branch 
for the year 1864. 

Kelief Department. — During the year just passed, 
relief of various kinds has been afibrded to more than 
six hundred families of soldiers by the Committee. 

Steady employment is given weekly to two hundred 
and eighty women. The remuneration for this work 
(though not in any case sufficient for the support of a 
family) is ample, and more than twice as much as is 
paid for the same amount of work by the Government. 

The Committee have had made for the Sanitary 
Commission between eight and nine thousand gar- 
ments ; they have, besides, taken work from contrac- 
tors, for which they receive one-half the amount paid 



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to their workmen. Sixteen thousand and ninety-one 
garments have been made in this way, and the work 
is largely sought by many a soldier's wife and widow. 
These women are visited and cared for in divers ways 
by the ladies who have them in charge. 

The funds to carry on the work of the Committee 
are contributed by generous friends. These sums are 
acknowledged, from time to time, in the printed re- 
ports of the Committee. During the year 1864, 
eleven thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars have 
been received from various sources. 

A large part of this amount is in monthly subscrip- 
tions, conveyed to the Committee through Mr. A. D. 
Jessup. 

The only regret the Committee ever feel is, that 
they cannot relieve all the want which comes to their 
notice. 

Last year, much comfort was given by the donation 
of half a ton of coal to each family. This year the 
amount of coal contributed for this purpose is ten 
tons, which the Committee have received through Mr. 
J. J. Borie, and which will be distributed to the most 
destitute. 

HOSPITAL DIEECTOEY. 

During the year just closed, the Hospital Directory 
has continued its work and greatly extended its sphere 
of usefulness. It is, indeed, difficult to estimate the 
amount of anxiety and distress relieved through its 
instrumentality. Most of those who apply for infor- 
mation of their friends and relatives in the Army and 
Navy seem to be entirely ignorant how to commence 



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the search. Many, too, are constantly calling for ad- 
vice, who, having exhausted every other source, apply 
to the Sanitary Commission. In giving an answer to 
an inquiry as to the whereabouts of a soldier, not only 
the inquirer's mind is reheved, but frequently a large 
circle of friends also. Numerous letters have been 
received at our office during the year expressing the 
utmost satisfaction at the answers we have been ena- 
bled to furnish. In some cases we have succeeded in 
ascertaining that men were alive, and in rebel hands, 
whose families had given them up for lost months 
before.* 

When it is considered that this work is done at a 
cost of only one dollar and fifty-five cents for eacli 
successful answer, it wiU be readily admitted that 
nothing which the Commission has undertaken has 
been more satisfactory in its results. It will be ob- 
served from the report given below that in seventy- 
seven out of every hundred inquiries we have been 
enabled to obtain information. As very many never 
apply at our rooms until they have failed in every 
effort of their own, it is thought that the proportion 
of answers given is fully as large as could be expected. 

In addition to the regular inquiries of the Direc- 
tory, we are constantly called upon for advice and as- 
sistance of a miscellaneous character, such as the best 



* A Captain in our Army had been missing for nearly a year, and his 
family had abandoned all hopes of his being alive. His mother, after 
searching in vain in every other quarter, appealed to the Sanitary Com- 
mission. The oflScer in charge of the Directory applied for information 
to a released prisoner just returned from " the Libby," and then at our 
rooms. That gentleman at once declared that the long-lost son had 
been confined with him for months in the Libby, and was removed to 
Andersonville on the day of his exchange. 



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and cheapest mode of procuring the bodies of deceased 
soldiers from the Army, the means of communi- 
cating with those in hospitals at distant points, the 
method of obtaining passes, the means to be used in 
securing the effects of men who die in the service, and 
of writing letters to prisoners, &c. On all these 
points w^e keep ourselves thoroughly advised, so as to 
be able to make the proper answers. It is estimated 
that not less than fifty weekly, or twenty-six hundred 
persons during the year, have sought and received 
information of this nature. 

At the present time we have on our books 75,830 
names, 47,987 of which have been added during the 
year, viz. : 

New England States 12,269 

Kew York 16,918 

Pennsylvania 26,054 

Other States east of mountains 4,314 

Western States 9,714 

United States Eegnlars 4,922 

Miscellaneous organizations 1,639 

75,830 

Total number of inquiries and answers in 

Correspondence Book, Dec. 31, 1864 3,204 

Information afforded 2,367 

ISTo information afforded 790 

Awaiting reply. 47 

3,204 

Number of inquiries and answers on Cor- 
respondence Book for the year 1864 2,203 

Information afforded (77 per cent).. 1,691 

No information afforded 465 

Awaiting reply 47 

2,203 

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PROTECTIVE WAR CLAIM AND PENSION AGENCY. 

Five classes of claims are now prosecuted by this 
Agency, viz : claims for pensions on behalf of disabled 
soldiers and the relatives of deceased soldiers; for 
bounty and back-pay due the estates of deceased sol- 
diers ; for pay of prisoners-of-war ; for pay of soldiers 
discharged with defective final papers ; and for prize 
money of seamen. Although the prosecution of two 
classes at least of these claims was not contemplated 
when the Agency was established, they came so en- 
tirely within the relief designed to be afforded that 
they could not be rejected without manifest incon- 
sistency. 

The table accompanying this report will show tliat 
since the Agency was organized, in May, 1863, 4:,odo 
claims have been received for collection. Of these, 
there h^ve been settled 731 claims for pension, 594 
claims for bounty and back-pay, amounting in value to 
$72,067 50; 182 claims for pay applied for by the 
families of prisoners-of-Avar amounting to $21,363 64 ; 
and 52 claims for prize money, amounting to $1,992 26. 
The total amount thus collected in cash, and paid to 
claimants, or held subject to their order, is $95,423 40. 
To this must be added the sums paid to this date upon 
the certificates of pension, which, at tlie lowest esti- 
mate, cannot be less than $41,712 00, showing a total 
sum realized for applicants of at least $137,135 40, 
without the expense of one dollar to the claimants. 

It win be noticed that the very large number of 
3,252 claims belongs to the year 1864, a rate of in- 
crease over that of the previous year of 96 per cent. 



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This is remarkable, from the fact that scarcely any 
attempt has been made during the year to advertise 
the objects of the Agency through the press. The 
growth of the business might, with very little effort, 
have been very largely accelerated ; but the consequent 
increase of labor, especially in the item of correspond- 
ence, would have compelled a very considerable addi- 
tion to the clerical force. If the principle which led 
to the establishment of the Agency be a just one, it 
may be questioned whether it is proper longer to re- 
frain from giving the widest scope possible to its oper- 
ation. That motive was the manifest injustice of com- 
pelling claimants against the Government to pay a 
percentage for the collection of their dues, which is 
never contemplated in the settlement of ordinary 
debts. The debt Avhich must be prosecuted under 
legal forms to a settlement, and for whose collection 
the sum of 10 per cent, is charged, would be deemed, 
in mercantile business, desperate. If the interests of 
Government" require a strict adherence to technical 
forms and proofs in the presentation of claims, it 
would seem that the expenses of the process should 
be borne by the Government, and not by its creditors. 
This result might be effected either by the establish- 
ment of Government Agencies similar in character to 
that of the Commission, or by the allowance to the 
party, upon the settlement of the claim, of a sum suf- 
ficient to defray the legal charges allowed to claim 
agents. In the absence of such provision by the Go- 
vernment, the value of the service performed by this 
branch of the Commission cannot easily be exagger- 
ated. These services are valuable not merely in saving 
legitimate expenses, but in preventing dishonesty. 



20 

Perhaps no line of business offers larger or more 
tempting opportunities for the perpetration of dishon- 
esty than does that of the prosecution of claims against 
the Government. The character of the claimants and 
of the claims, while it invites to extortion, renders its 
detection almost impossible. It must be remembered 
that in all claims preferred by the relatives of a de- 
ceased soldier, the actual amount due to his estate can 
never be accurately known until the account is finally 
audited at the Treasury Department. The vouchers 
in settlement of the claim are sent to the attorney, to 
whose integrity the claimant must trust for a proper 
settlement of the accounts and payment of the pro- 
ceeds. When it is further remembered that a very 
large proportion of claimants are the widows and 
mothers of soldiers, a class rendered by their position 
peculiarly powerless, it may be safely assumed that the 
sums illegally withheld are enormous, if they bear any 
proportion to the opportunities presented for dis- 
honesty. 

Objection has been taken to the work of this branch 
of the Commission that it is not strictly charitable, 
because it makes no distinction in the circumstances 
of claimants. Such a discrimination, however, even 
if it were practicable, could not fail to result in em- 
barrassment. A careful observation of the cases pre- 
sented during the year shows the practical uselessness 
of the policy by disclosing the fact that of the whole 
number of claimants the circumstances of at least 
three-fourths are but a step removed from actual 
poverty. 

The delay in the settlement of claims, so familiar ^ 
to all who have frequent dealings with Government, 



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needs a word of explanation. The pay-rolls upon 
which the claims of deceased soldiers are settled by 
the Second Auditor of the Treasury Department are 
frequently not accessible to that officer until several 
months have elapsed after the death of the soldier. 
These rolls, as well as the proof submitted by the legal 
representatives of the deceased, must be carefidly ex- 
amined and submitted for approval to the Second 
Comptroller before any claim can be settled. The 
result is that an interval often exceeding a year inter- 
venes between the filing and the final adjustment of a 
claim for arrears of pay. In applications for pension 
the delay, although not usually so great, is still very 
considerable. Owing to the numerous attempts at 
fraud in the presentation of unworthy or fictitious 
claims, the rides of proof insisted upon by the De- 
partment have been gradually rendered more stringent. 
The disability or death of the soldier is required in 
every case to be distinctly shown as having occurred 
in the line of military duty, and as incident to the 
service. In at least tliree-fourths of the whole num- 
ber of cases the Company records fail to throw^ suffi- 
cient light upon these points, and the party, or his at- 
torney, is called upon to furnish the requisite proof. 
Where the claimant is the widow of a soldier, her 
marriage must be shown, if possible, by a sworn copy 
of the church, or other public record of the marriage, 
and no other proof will be admitted unless the ab- 
sence of such record is clearly established. Where 
the claimants are minors, a guardian must be appointed 
by Court, and the exact ages of the children and the 
marriage of their parents must be shown, if possible, 
by record evidence. Where the claimant is a mother, 



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she must establish the fact of her dependence for sup- 
port upon her deceased son by proof of the sums ac- 
tually contributed by him, and for what, in general, 
they were appropriated. The witnesses called to tes- 
tify in any claim must be disinterested, and, if possible, 
not near relatives of the claimant. This rule, of 
course, excludes at once a large number of persons 
from testifying, with Avhom the knowledge of these 
facts peculiarly lies, and increases in the same propor- 
tion the difficulty of establishing the claim. 

It would be easy perhaps to add a feature of interest 
to this report by citing examples of the operation of 
this branch of the Commission in individual cases. 
These comprise frequently the most afflicting exhibi- 
tions of utter poverty and hopelessness. In repeated 
instances a home has been kept to the families of sol- 
diers by the trifling loans which have been advanced 
upon claims in course of settlement. During the 
present month a certificate of pension in favor of a 
soldier discharged for consumption contracted in the 
service was received upon the day of his death. His 
wife called to say that she had no means with which 
to defray the expenses of his burial. Fortunately the 
arrears upon the pension proved to be considerable, 
and were promptly paid by the Government pension 
agent. 

But it is believed that the character of the work, 
as one of benevolence, is sufficiently indicated in the 
tables accompaning this report. The large and rapid 
growth, which, with little aid from the public press, 
the work has attained, shows the estimation in which 
it is held, and the ease with which it may be still 
further enlarged. Probably in no branch of the 



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Commission are the benefits resulting from its labors 
so direct and so encouraging. 

Tlie Agency was incorporated on the otli of Decem- 
ber, 1864, under the provision of the Act of Assem- 
bly, giving that power to the Court of Common Pleas. 

Number of claims received for collection, from 

January 1, 1864, to January 1, 1865 3,252 

Previously entered 1,103 

Total number of claims on file 4,355 

Of these there were for Pension 

For Invalid Soldiers 1,121 

" Widows 605 

" Mothers 177 

" Minors 21 

1,924 

For Bounty and Back Pay 

" Discharged Soldiers 716 

" Widows 573 

'' Mothers 258 

" Fathers 360 

" Brothers and sisters 132 

2,039 

For pay of prisoners of war, 

^W^ives ) 

Widowed Mothers f ^^^ 

Prize Money and commutation of rations 126 

4,355 



24: 

Of the claims for Pension, there have been settled as 
follows : 

For Invalid Soldiers 589 

" Widows 116 

'• Mothers 26 

. 731 

For Bounty and Back Pay. 

" Discharged Soldiers 272 

" Widows 138 

" Mothers 49 

" Fathers lU 

'• Guardians and others 26 

59-1 

For pay of Prisoners of war. 
" Wives and Mothers 182 

F'or Prize-money and other claims 52 

1,559 

The amounts collected in cash upon the above claims, 
except those for pension, are as follows : 

For bounty and Back-pay, 

" Discharged Soldiers $30,077 U 

" Widows 18,025 09 

'^ Mothers 6,383 69 

" Fathers 13,928 01 

" Guardians and others 8,658 27 

" Pay of Prisoners of war 21,863 64 

" Prize-money and other claims, 1,992 26 

95.423 40 



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To this sum sliould be added the probable 
amounts due or paid up to December 31, 1864, 
upon the certificates of pension, as follows : 

Estimating^ the averao'e value of each invalid 
pension at six dollars per month, and the date of 
its commencement at eight months prior to De- 
cember 31, 1864, the amounts paid or due upon 
this class of pensions at the latter 
date would be §28,176 00 

Estimating the widow's pension 
at an average value of eight dollars 
per month, and twelve months as 
the average date, the amount col- 
lected or due would be 11,010 00 

Estimating the mother's pension 
at eight dollars per month for 
twelve months, the amount would 
be 2,-196 00 



41;712 00 

Total amount received for claimants §137,135 -40 



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SPECIAL RELIEF. 

At the date of our last report, tlie Special Relief 
Department in Philadelphia had just been reorganized. 
Sufficient time had not then elapsed to test its practi- 
cal working. The results of more than a year's ex- 
perience is now sufficient to convince us, not only of 
its immense benefit to our hospitals and men, but also 
of the economical residts of the plan adopted. Colonel 
Soest, our Special Relief Agent, visits one or other of 
our hospitals daily, keeping himself thoroughly ad- 
vised of their requirements. He is prepared at all 
times to render such assistance as falls wdthin the 
scope of the Sanitary Commission. When requisi- 
tions are made upon us. Colonel Soest, by personal 
inspection, ascertains whether the articles demanded 
are really needed or not. Thus a constant check is 
maintained to secure the economical distribution of 
the supplies entrusted to our care. 

Perhaps the most important portion of our Special 
Ilelief work is the looking after the comfort of indi- 
vidual soldiers, those in the service as w^ell as those 
discharged. Any one familiar with the subject knows 
how many and various are the wants of the soldier 
which the Government cannot reasonably be expected 
to care for. There are at our rooms daily : men with- 
out descriptive lists, men with their clothing accounts 
overdrawn, those discharged, or waiting to be dis- 
charged who have claims unsettled, those needing 
transportation, and those suffering from countless 
other causes. The case of each man is thoroughly 



27 

investigated, whenever necessary he is visited, and 
snch aid afforded as the circnnistances require. 

The apphcations have recently become so numerous 
that it has been found necessary to appoint an assistant 
to Colonel Soest. By this arrangement the latter is 
enabled to pass most of his time in visiting our hos- 
pitals. 

During the year, iifty-three hundred and fifty-six 
cases have received attention, as follows : 

Number of issues of supplies made to general and 

vohmteer hospitals and transports 464 

Number of issues of supplies made to individual 

soldiers in the service 2,091 

Number of issues of supplies made to discharged 

soldiers 1,210 

Visits paid to hospitals 317 

Visits paid to individuals 303 

Referred to local relief associations 330 

Transportation given or procured 375 

Temporary subsistence given 139 

Supplied with trusses, &c 6 

Miscellaneous 121 



5,356 



Value of supplies issued to general hospitals $24,244 40 
Value of supplies issued to volunteer hospitals, 
refreshment saloons, " home," &c., including 

Harrisburg: Lods-e 7,623 37 

Value of supplies issued to transports, &c 1,120 50 

Value of supplies issued to individual soldiers, 20,777 35 

53,765 62 



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It will be observed, on reference to the above state- 
ment, that supplies, amounting in value to $7,623 37, 
have been issued to the various volunteer organiza- 
tions for the relief of soldiers in this department. In 
addition to this, the Executive Committee has appro- 
priated $2,000 to the Citizens' Volunteer Hospital, 
$2,000 to the Cooper Shop Volunteer Eefreshment 
Saloon, $2,000 to the Union Volunteer E-efreshment 
Saloon, and $500 to the Soldiers' Home. 

It vras mentioned in the Report of last year that 
the propriety of establishing a " Home" in Philadel- 
phia had received our serious attention, and that after 
proper investigation, it was deemed inadvisable at that 
time. The experience of the year just closed has led 
to the conviction that, altliough our conclusion may 
have been wise then, the necessity for a " Home" now 
exists. 

Those who need the protection of a Home are : — 
1st. Soldiers on furlough, or those detained tempo- 
rarily here. 2d. Soldiers awaiting their discharge. 
3d. Soldiers waiting the adjustment of their bounty 
and pension papers. 4th. Women visiting sick rela- 
tives in our hospitals. 5th. Widows of soldiers whose 
claims for pension are being attended to by our Pen- 
sion Agency. 6 th. Soldiers, who, for a variety of 
reasons impossible to define, find themselves thrown 
here without the means of obtaining slielter. When 
the subject was considered a year ago, it was thought 
that the Refreshment Saloons and Citizens Volunteer 
Hospital WT3uld meet aU these requirements. But 
experience has sliow^n that this plan is neither satis- 
factory to ourselves nor to those institutions. We 
frequently find their accommodation inadequate, that 



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the cases we send do not come within their regula- 
tions, or that we subject them to inconvenience. 

In conchision, it is earnestly hoped that the Execu- 
tive Committee may see proper to authorize the 
opening of a Home or Lodge, on a moderate scale, 
which shall be under our own control. With this 
accomplished, our usefulness would be increased, and 
no department of work legitimately belonging to the 
Sanitary Commission woidd be wanting in the city of 
Philadelphia. 

Kespectfully submitted, 

ROBERT M. LEWIS, 
General Superintendent, 

Philadelphia, January 3, 1865. 



Eeport of CALEB COPE, Treasurer, Philadelphia Agency, 
to January 1st, 1865. 

Total amount of collection to January 1st, 1SC5...$138,3G4 10 
Advance by Great Central Fair 8G,000 00 

Total $224,3(34 TO 

DISBURSEMENT. 

Printers, advertising, stationery, and 

postage $4,627 10 

Special relief 2,408 96 

War Claim Agency 2,416 70 

Hospital Director}^ 3,034 34 

Kent 1,225 00 

Traveling expenses, including the fit- 
ting out of Relief Agents 769 97 

Incidental expenses at depositor}^, in- 
cluding carpenters work, plumbing, 
freight, hauling furniture, and insur- 
ance 5,4S5 72 • 

Miscellaneous, including collector's 

compensation 2,741 75 

Paid for supplies, embracing material 
for clothing, provisions, fitting out 
transports, &c 84,974 86 

Donation to Citizens' Volunteer Hospl 2,000 00 
YolunteerRefresh't Saloon 2,000 00 
Cooper Shop Saloon 2,000 00 

Exchanged for Cit}^ warrants 750 00 

Paid Wm. Struthers, Treas., Soldiers' 

Home 500 00 

Cash in Philadelphia Bank 2,823 80 

Amount expended previous to Jan. 1st, 

1864, as shown in last Report 106,606 50 

$224,364 70 



ISSUES OF THE PHILADEirHIA AGENCY 



OF THE 



IT. S. SANITARY COMMISSION 

Including the Women's Pennsylvania Branch, from January 1st, 
1864, to December 31st, 1864, inclusive. 



Articles. Number. Value. 

Arrow Eoot, lbs 50 $9 00 

Adhesive Plaster, yds. 60 15 00 

Aromatic Vinegar, bottles 54 13 50 

Bread, loaves 28 2 2-4 

Bay Rum, bottles 146 109 50 

Butter,lbs ' 1,139 569 50 

Barley, lbs 69 6 90 

Blouses, wool 20 70 00 

Blankets, wool 757 2,271 00 

Bed Ticks 2,785 5,570 00 

Bed Ticking, yards 60 21 60 

Bed Spreads ..7.. 87 478 50 

Bed Pans. 50 36 00 

BedChairs 31 93 00 

Bed Quilts and Comfortables.... 732 4,392 00 

Brushes, hair 74 18 50 

Boots, pairs 1 3 50 

Broma, lbs 146 80 30 

Boilers, iron 7 18 00 

Bottles, glass, gross 3i 42 00 

Blinds, Venetian 10^ 80 00 

Bread 50 00 

Blinds and Sliades, yards 160 128 00 

Bandages, dozens, 591 J 1,035 12 

Bandage Rollers 12^ 27 00 

Beef, roast, lbs 6,630 1,657 50 

do tea, do 4 4 00 

do extract, lbs 28 28 00 

do soup, do 3,930 982 50 



32 

Beef assorted lbs 120 $30 00 

do dried do 1,314 815 36 

do corned, bbls 5 132 50 

do Julienne soup, lbs 624 156 00 

do a la mode do 4,080 1,020 00 

Bromine, oz 500 330 00 

Coffee, green, lbs 237 107 88 

do extractor, do 52 26 00 

do ground do 396 118 80 

do roasted do 60 88 00 

Cheese, do 252 55 44 

Corn, dried, do 162 8 10 

do meal, do 687 24 04 

do starch, do 3,818 458 16 

Cakes, do 191 47 75 

Crackers, do 17,072 1,877 92 

Chicken, condensed, cans 1 50 

Chocolate, lbs 733 410 48 

Cocoa, do 162 90 72 

Cod-fish do 3,000 240 00 

Corks, gross 13} 23 19 

Catsup, bottles 615 153 75 

Coats, wool 523 2,876 50 

do light 161 402 50 

Combs, fine and coarse 10,602 848 16 

Collars 43 4 80 

Canes 2,584 852 72 

Cups, spit 548 82 20 

Comforters 37 12 95 

Counterpanes 37..... 203 50 

Cushions and Pads 5,282 1,320 50 

do air 30 135 00 

do ring 724 181 00 

do oil-cloth 30 9 00 

do stomach 2 60 

Cologne, bottles 158 76 00 

Cocoa Matting, yards 79 98 75 

Caps 289 144 50 

Chairs, Windsor 12 12 00 

Crutches, pairs l,394i 773 67 

Candles, lbs 112 22 40 

Crutches, spring, pairs 4 22 00 

Cooking utensils 88 60 

Coal Oil, gallons 43 89 54 



33 

Camplior, bottles 121 $50 82 

Chlorine Powders 100 190 00 

Chickens 2 1 50 

Drugs and Medicines, assorted.. 840 31 

Drawers, wool 9,750 19,500 00 

do cotton 6,261 8,139 00 

do canton flannel 2,996 5,392 80 

do hospital 356 534 00 

Ear-warmers 1 12 

Eggs, dozens 242fo 72 65 

EggNogg 167 195 39 

Eje-shades.... 24 6 00 

Flavoring Extract, bottles 1,488 372 00 

Farina, lbs 3,629 453 62 

Flour, barrels 22 264 00 

Flannel, red, yards 29 18 85 

Fans 4,941 222 35 

Farinaceous food, lbs 48 12 00 

FRUITS. 

Fruit, preserved, cans 597 298 50 

Peaches, preserved, cans 1,333 506 54 

Fruits, dried, lbs 5,812 1,162 40 

Apples do 5,920 661 20 

do green, bushels 74i 93 13 

Apple Butter, gallons 122 122 00 

do do cans 980 294 00 

Cranberries, barrels 1 17 50 

Hot-house Grapes, lbs 10 10 00 

Lemons, boxes 194^ 2,428 13 

Oranges, do 19 114 00 

Prunes, lbs 253 50 60 

Finger Stalls 380 38 00 

Feathers, lbs 7 5 60 

Ginger, Extract of, bottles 3,532 1,059 60 

Gelatine, packages 7 1 75 

do lbs 6 7 50 

Glass Jars, dozens 156^2 312 35 

Golden Bitters, bottles 48 36 00 

Games, assorted 285 34 20 

Gas Stove 1 11 25 

Hand Printing Press 1 110 00 

3 



34 

Horse Eadish, jars 13 $3 25 

Honey, lbs 28 9 80 

Ham, do 61 15 86 

Havelocks 102 30 60 

Hats 40 40 00 

Handkerchiefs 15,238 2,285 70 

Hominy, lbs 108 6 48 

Invalid Chairs 3 75 00 

Isinglass Plaster, yards 2 1 50 

Knives and Forks, gross 3 49 50 

Lint, lbs 2,133 1,066 50 

Lard,lbs, 16 4 00 

Lanterns 60 90 00 

Linen, old, lbs 1,480 370 00 

Lime Juice, bottles 3,156 1,514 88 

Medical Saddle Bags, filled 18 50 

Mittens and gloves, pairs 555 275 00 

Milk, condensed, lbs 10,775 3,771 25 

Maizena, do 17 2 38 

Mosquito Netting, pieces, 252 579 60 

Mattrasses 3 

Mackerel, kits 20 

Mustard, lbs 10 

Matches, gross 21 

Muslin, yards 400 

Neck-ties 125 

Needle books and Housewives. 1,876 469 00 

Nutmegs, lbs 15 

Needles 2,500 

Oat-meal, lbs 74 

Oil Silk, yards 37 

Onions, pickled, jars 480 

Oil, sweet, bottles 1 

Paper Bags 2,000 

Pepper Hash, barrels 5 

Pork, do 1 

Pickles, gallons 2.148 1,611 00 

do jars 2,479 1,239 50 

Preserves and Jellies 3,186 1,593 00 

Pails, wood 120 36 00 

Pipes, tobacco 193 97 

Pickled Cabbage, kegs 31 139 50 

do do barrels llj 115 00 

Pepper Sauce, bottles 13 4 55 



10 


50 


55 


00 


4 


50 


68 


75 


220 


00 


15 


00 


469 


00 


31 


50 


7 


00 


7 40 


46 


25 


182 


40 




50 


2 


50 


50 


00 


25 


00 



35 

Pms,packs 19 $11 40 

Pillows, feather 1,073 1,609 50 

do ticks 2,869 1,147 60 

do cases 2,755 1,102 00 

do hop 75 56 25 

Pants, wool, pairs 723 2,892 00 

do light do 26 65 00 

Peaches, dried, lbs 749 157 29 

do fresh, boxes 120 210 00 

Pies 3 75 

Kubber Cloth, yards 3 4 50 

Eefrigerators 4 102 00 

Eusks, lbs 879 52 74 

do barrels 1 4 80 

Kazors 20 ^20 00 

Eags, muslin and linen, lbs 2,375 593 75 

Eice, lbs 368 36 80 

do flour, lbs 11 165 

Eocking Chairs 20 105 00 

Spectacles, green, pairs 12 3 00 

Syrups, assorted, bottles 416 208 00 

do lemon, do 578 289 00 

Saccharine Lemon Juice, bott's. 491 245 50 

Slings 2,360 590 00 

Sick-feeders 200 42 00 

Sour Krout, barrels 5 32 50 

Splints, hospital, setts 1,521 1,140 75 

Shirts, cotton 5,465 8,197 50 

do wool 18,370 36,740 00 

do cotton flannel 310 620 00 

Sugar, white, lbs 3,568 1,034 72 

do brown,lbs 225 51 75 

do maple do 127 22 86 

Sheets 1,180 2,360 00 

Stoneware jars, dozens 14 35 00 

Shoes, pairs 615 953 25 

Suspenders, pairs 195 54 60 

Scissors, do 101 30 30 

Slippers, do 2,021i 1,617 20 

Sago, lbs 32 6 40 

Scrapple, do 95 7 60 

Sausage, do 150 37 50 

Sponge, do 29 87 00 

Spices, assorted, do 119 89 25 



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Salt, bags 59 $14 75 

Soap; lbs 629 125 80 

SeedS; garden, assortment of..... 35 00 

Socks, cotton, pairs 1,817 45-1 25 

do wool, do 11,780 4,240 80 

Schenck's Syrup, bottles 3 3 00 

do Tonic, do 3 3 00 

Soap, soft, barrels 1 8 00 

Sonp, vegetable, cans 120 60 00 

Salve, boxed, dozens 4 11 00 

Spittoons 50 15 00 

Settees 12 54 00 

Stretchers 1 4 50 

Tripe, spiced, lbs 1,000 160 00 

Tobacco, pkig do 7,390^ 4,138 68 

do smoking, lbs 5,188^ 1,867 68 

Tin-ware, pudding-pans 100 23 00 

do saucepans 7 2 40 

do basins 115 46 00 

do plates 3,186 318 60 

do cups 2,034 223 64 

do boilers 1 4 75 

do graters 48 4 80 

do wash-basins 23 11 04 

Tea, black, lbs 560i 756 67 

do green, do 129r. 193 50 

Tamarinds, do 1,332 119 88 

Towels 8,298 1,410 66 

Trusses 7 21 00 

TestTubes 100 10 00 

Tapioca,lbs 30 6 00 

Thread, patent, lbs 18 48 60 

Table-spoons, iron, gross 16 112 00 

Vinegar, raspberry, bottles 720 360 00 

do cider, do 80 13 60 

do do gallons 192 69 12 

Vegetables, beets, barrels 143 679 25 

do beans, bushels 2 6 50 

do tomatoes, cans 5,463 2,185 20 

do string beans, cans,. 19 4 75 

do preserved do 68 17 00 

do cabbage heads 5,182 466 38 

do onions, bushels 23J 52 87 

do do barrels 489i- 3,793 62 



Vegetables; potatoes, bbls 119 $743 75 

do do sweet, bbls.. 122 884 50 

do mixed, do 4 15 00 

do turnips do 2 6 00 

Yests, cotton 119 148 75 

do wool 271 474 25 

Water-cooler 1 8 50 

Window-shades 16 40 00 

Wrappers 1,635 5,722 50 

WINES AND LIQUOES. 

Ale and Porter, barrels 69 897 00 

do do half barrels 10 65 00 

Alcohol, gallons 5 10 00 

Foreign wine, do 25 87 50 

do bottles 1,441 1,441 00 

Champagne, do 36 72 00 

Domestic wine do 1,473 736 50 

do do gallons 19 38 00 

Brandy, do 22 143 00 

do bottles 367 550 50 

Cherry cordial, gallons 14 42 00 

do brand V; bottles 1,253 1,065 05 

Whisky, " do 962 721 50 

do gallons. 48 120 00 

Easpberrv shrub, bottles 3 1 50 

Gin, Holland, do 4 5 00 

Porter, do 312 78 00 

Kum, Jamaica, do 7 7 00 

Cordials, assorted, do 478 239 00 

do blackb'y, gal 12 42 00 

Blackberry brandy ,"bottles 699 559 20 

do do gallons 37 129 50 

Ale, bottled, dozens 90 202 50 

Sherry Wine, bottles 1,258 1,258 00 

Yarn, lbs 25 50 00 

Zea mays, cans 68 17 00 

BOOKS AND STATIONERY. 

Eeading Matter, boxes 30 150 00 

Newspapers 3,512 70 24 

Envelopes 89,460 179 00 



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Lead pencils 1,253 $50 12 

Pen-holders 201 2 04 

Steel Pens, dozens 683 68 30 

Note Paper, reams 130J 261 00 

Postage Stamps 489 14 67 

Ink-stands and Ink 1,487 416 36 

Books, volumes 819 307 12 

TKANSPORTATION. 

Wagons, sutlers 1 180 00 

do tongues 1 4 75 

Coal and Wood for Steamers... 1,249 45 

Packing Materials ) 

Boxes, Barrels, Kegs, Paper, |- 800 00 

Straw, &c ) 

Total, $196,601 52 



ISSUES MADE 



U. S. A. GENERAL HOSPITALS 

In the Department of Pennsylvania from January 1st, 186 1, to 
December 31st, 1864. 



Articles. Number. Value. 

Coats, wool, 1 $5 50 

Pantaloons, wool 5 20 00 

Shirts, do 2,035 4,070 00 

do cotton and cotton flanoel. 1,393 2,437 75 

do linen 12 24 00 

Drawers, wool 1,165 2330 00 

do cotton and cot. flannel. 613 1,072 75 

Socks, wool, pairs 1,239 446 04 

do cotton, pairs 201 50 25 

Shoes, do 2 3 10 

Slippers, do 808 646 40 

Gloves, wool, do 103 5150 

Suspenders, do 3 84 

Handkerchiefs 2,864 579 60 

Towels 959 163 03 

Green Spectacles, pairs 1 25 

Hats and Caps 6 3 00 

Smoking Caps....'. 41 20 50 

Wrappers 214 749 00 

Blankets, wool 25 75 00 

Quilts 47 282 00 

Sheets 167 334 00 

Bed Ticks 20 40 00 

Mattrasses 1 3 60 

Pillows 171 256 50 

Pillow-cases 174 69 60 

Cushions and Pads 584 146 00 

Eing Cushions and Pads 302 75 50 

Air Cushions 6 27 00 

Chair do 2 1 50 



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Comfortables 6 $36 00 

Coverlets 18 99 00 

Bed-spreads 6 33 00 

Mosquito ^N'etting, yards 170 42 50 

Cocoa Matting, do 79 98 75 

Stomach Pads 6 1 80 

Arm Pillows 12 3 60 

do Slings 676 169 00 

Bandages, dozens 285 498 75 

Lint,lbs 978 489 00 

Eags, barrels 2 60 00 

do lbs 1,750 437 50 

Old Muslin, lbs 63 15 75 

do Linen, barrels 1 20 00 

Eed Flannel; yards 29 18 85 

Oil Silk, pieces 1 125 

Adhesive Plaster, rolls 11 2 75 

Canes 1,508 497 64 

Crutches, pairs 550 302 50 

do spring, pairs 1 5 50 

Eolling Chairs 2 10 50 

Bed Chairs 1 3 00 

Window-shades 18 45 00 

IceBoxes 1 25 00 

Eefrigerators 2 53 00 

Counterpanes 25 137 50 

Tin Saucepans 2 70 

Gas Stoves 1 11 25 

Pipes, tobacco 37 19 

Chewing Tobacco 390 218 40 

Pans 1,876 93 80 

Housewifes 84 21 00 

Combs 244 19 62 

Small Work-bags.; 120 14 40 

Eeading Matter, boxes 10 50 00 

Feathers,lbs 7 5 60 

Garden Tools, sett 1 4 75 

Seeds, assortment of. 35 00 

Note Paper, reams IIOJ 221 00 

Envelopes, boxes 93f. 93 80 

Postage Stamps 100.' 3 00 

Inkstands 4 80 

Ink, bottles 13 3 64 

do quart 1 50 



41 

Pens, gross 7 $5 25 

Pen-holders 148 1 48 

Lead Pencils 12 48 

Checker Boards 88 10 56 

Solitaire do 4 48 

Dominoes, setts 4 58 

Chinese Puzzles 12 1 44 

Link do 8 96 

Chess Boards and Men 4 48 

Hearts and Kings 8 96 

Jewsharps, blocks 2 12 

Assortment of Games 5 60 

Cane Seat Rocking-chairs 20 105 00 

Soap, lbs 271 5 50 

Candles do 2h 50 

Butter do 56.1 28 00 

Eggs, dozens 69 14 49 

Dried Meat, lbs 143 48 62 

Sausages, do 20 5 00 

Dried Corn, do 30 150 

Popped Corn, do 2 40 

Corn Meal, do 141 4 95 

do Starch, do 245 29 52 

Farina, do 259 32 37 

Cakes, do 103 25 75 

Crackers, do 481 52 91 

Rusk, do... 184 9 20 

Potatoes, barrels 14f 92 19 

Onions, do 4 31 00 

Pickled Cabbage, gallons 15 5 25 

Green Apples, barrels 4^- 18 00 

Dried do and Fruits, bbls. 5l| 824 00 

do do do lbs... 1,928.''. 212 08 

Lemons, boxes 95 1,187 50 

Oranges, do Ill 69 00 

Grapes ^ 1 00 

Chocolate, lbs 56 31 36 

Cocoa, do 29 16 24 

Tea, do 13 17 55 

Sugar, do 226 65 54 

do mapledo 10 ^ 180 

Hone J, jars 7 2 45 

Fruit Syrups, gallons 18 54 00 

do do cans 8 12 00 



42 

Lemon Sugar, bottles 3 $1 50 

do Syrup, do 13 6 50 

do Juice, lbs 218 104 64 

Tamarinds, do 32 2 88 

do jars 8 6 00 

Apple Butter, gallons 136 136 00 

Preserves and Jellies, cans 1,623 811 50 

Tomatoes, cans 200 80 00 

Catsup and Horseradish, jars.... 88 22 00 

do do jugs... 4 6 00 

do do bot's.. 89 22 25 

Pickles, barrels 1 18 00 

Pickles, kegs 19 95 00 

do gallons 911 683 25 

Vegetables, cans 3 1 50 

Beef Extract, lbs 4 4 00 

Pepper Sauce, jars 2 1 00 

Gelatine,lbs 4 5 00 

Domestic Wine, gallons 84 168 00 

Foreign do do 18 63 00 

Currant do do 12 24 00 

Blackberrydo do 12 36 00 

do Cordial, do 49i 148 50 

Easpberry do do 2^ 6 00 

do Yinegar do 7 J 15 00 

do do jugs, 2 5 00 

Sherry Wine, bottles 96 96 00 

Claret do do 12 6 00 

Champagne, do 26 52 00 

Brandy, gallons 14 91 00 

do blackberry, gallons 1391 488 25 

Jam, do jars 1 3 50 

Whiskey, bottles 15^ 38 75 

BayEum, do 63.^ 3150 

Cologne, do 33 16 50 

Ginger, essence, do 18 5 40 

do Jamaica, do 12 3 60 

Fruit, vinegar, do 16 8 00 

Aromatic do do 36 9 00 

Nutmegs, lbs i 27 

Oat Meal, do 12 1 30 

Yarn, • do 1 2 25 

Total, $24,244 40 



ISSUES MADE 



YOLU]NrTEEE ORG A]^IZATI0:N^S 

For the relief of Soldiers in the Department of Pennsylvania, 
from January 1st, 1864:, to December 31st, 1864. 



Articles. Number. Value. 

Coats, light 13 $ 32 50 

do. wool 2 11 00 

do. old 12 15 00 

Pants, pairs 31 124 00 

Shirts, wool 247 494 00 

do. cotton and cot. flannel... 586 1,025 50 

Drawers, wool 161 322 00 

do. cotton and cot. flan'l.. 155 27125 

Socks, wool, pairs 326 117 36 

do. cotton, do 154 38 50 

Shoes, do 9 13 95 

Slippers, do 247 197 60 

Handkerchiefs 449 67 35 

Towels, 273 46 41 

Quilts 1 6 00 

Mattrasses, old 2 6 00 

Sheets 146 292 00 

Bed ticks 185 370 00 

Pillow cases 96 38 40 

Wool Blankets 27 81 00 

Arm slings 36 9 00 

Muslin, yards 200 80 00 

Bandages, dozen 200 350 00 

Pvags, lbs 105 26 25 

Material for bed ticks, yards 64 21 76 

Fans 136 6 80 

Combs 96 7 68 

Canes 27 8 91 



Eggs, doz 207 

99 



do. box 

Coffee, lbs 

Tea, do '/;;;;.; 

Chocolate, lbs 30 

Sugar, do [[][[ 7(30 

Sausages, do 

Pepper, do 281 

Salt, do ox'-^ 



Potatoes, do 35 _ 

Vegetables, do 41 

Rice, lbs 54^ 

Flour, barrels. 



$102 85 

U 00 

5 00 

72 00 



44 

Crutches, pairs 137 

Note Paper, reams 3 

Envelopes [ 2,500.'.'.'.'.'. 

Comfortables 22 . . 

Vests * 6......... 10 60 

Patent crutches 2 3 50 

Castile soap, lbs :;;;: m;;;;;;;;; 29 00 

ooit soap, barrels 2 8 00 

Matches, gross 1.'.*.*.*.*.'*" 3 9- 

Pipes 22 or 

Chewing tobacco, lbs 151. *.*.'.'.'."" 83 05 

Pins, papers 1..'.'.."' 29 

32 
56 64 



Ham, lbs 39 

Dried Beef, lbs ;:;: 236 ., ,, 

i^^^es^' cIo 106 23 30 

gutter do 289 144 50 



26 75 



Cakes, lbs v^; 5 ^q 

Rusk, do OQA -1-1 ^.^ 



230 11 50 

1 1 50 



S35 108 00 

58 75 80 

16 80 

... 222 14 

^0 20 00 



15 96 
Sour Krout, barrels 3..'.'.*.'.'.*.'.* 30 00 



'0 18 75 



do. do. gallons, 

Cabbage, barrels ^ 15 00 

2^'^^^^^ ^^^ 91 73 63 

218 75 

15 75 

5 40 



1 12 50 



3 80 

3 99 

3 00 

26 04 



do. prepared, lbs 471 

Corn meal, do 114^ 

do. dried, do 60.'^ 

do. starch, do 217* 

^^™a^ clo .'■' 162'.*.'.'.'.".Z 20 25 

^pice, do 1 75 

Mustard, do 131 q 08 

Nutmegs do 5 .:.;:.:.: 1050 

lurnips, barrels 2 6 00 



45 

Green apples, barrels llj $46 00 

do. do. bushels 1^ 1 88 

Dried do. and fruit, bbls .. . 12| 200 00 

do. do. do. lbs 155 17 05 

Lemons, box ISJ 163 75 

Oranges, do 3 18 00 

Lemon syrup, bottles 12 6 00 

Preserves and jellies, cans 468 229 00 

Apple butter, gallons 103 103 00 

Pine apples 1 25 

Cocoa, lbs 26 14 56 

Extract of coffee, cans 4 2 00 

Women's k children's shoes, prs 28 21 00 

Bread 50 00 

Wrappers 25 87 50 

Mosquito netting, pieces 3 6 90 

Isinglass plaster, yards 2 1 50 

Housewives 148 37 00 

Scissors, pairs 1 30 

Eubber cloth, yards 3 4 50 

Lint, lbs 8 4 00 

Adhesive plaster, yards 5 1 25 

Sulph. of Morphia, oz J 200 

Camphor, oz 1 10 

Syrup, lemon, cases 4 16 00 

Salve, lbs 2 1 24 

do. box 24 6 00 

Sponges 12 1 44 

Olive oil, bottle 1 62 

Water cooler 1 8 00 

Tea,lbs 16 21 60 

Crackers, lbs 152 16 72 

Reading^ matter, box 5 5 00 

Smoking tobacco, lbs 10 5 50 

do. do. gross 2 22 70 

Brandy, bottles 12 18 00 

Whiskey, do 12 9 00 

Sherry wine do 49 49 00 

Blackberry, wine, bot's 16 8 00 

Blackberry brandy, do 48 38 40 

Raspberry vinegar, do 12 6 00 

Cologne, do 24 12 00 

Ginger extract, do 12 3 60 

Port wine, do 1 1 25 



46 

Domestic wine, gall's 5 $10 00 

do. do. bottles 16 8 00 

Whiskey, gallons 82 80 00 

Brandy, do 8 62 00 

Brandy, blackberry, gall's 8 28 00 

Cordial, do. bot's 3 160 

Jamaica ginger, do 6 1 80 

Meat, lbs 5 75 

Chickens 2 1 00 

Chestnuts, lbs< 8 80 

Pies .' 3 75 

Condensed milk, lbs 76 26 60 

Dried cherries, do 17 3 74 

Lemon juice, do 24 12 00 

Tomatoes, jars 80 32 00 

Tomatoes, jugs 24 36 00 

Catsup, jars 18 4 50 

do. bottles.: 48 12 00 

Condensed chicken, can 1 50 

Pickles, barrels 2 36 00 

do. gallons 501 375 75 

Yinegar, do 5 1 75 

do. aromatic, bots 6 1 50 

$7,623 37 



ISSUES MADE 



INDIVIDUAL SOLDIERS 

In the Service and discharged, from January 1st, 1864, to 
December 1st, 1864. 



Articles. Number. Value. 

Coats, wool 267 $1,468 50 

do light 108 270 00 

do old 2. 2 50 

Pants, wool, pairs 309 1,236 00 

do light, do 88 220 00 

do old, do 1 1 25 

Vests 78 136 50 

Shirts, wool 3,562 7,124 00 

do cotton flannel 316 553 00 

do cotton 393 687 75 

DraAvers, wool 2,424 4,848 00 

do cotton flannel 90 157 50 

do cotton 403 705 25 

Socks, wool, pairs 2,502 900 72 

do cotton do 349 

Shoes do 465^ 



Slippers do 164 

Gloves, wool do 67 J 

do hair do 1 

Mittens do 10 

Handkerchiefs 336 

Towels 11 

Neckties 42 

Collars 14 

Wrappers 55 192 50 

Wool Blankets 26 78 00 



87 


25 


721 


53 


131 


60 


33 


75 




75 


5 


00 


50 


40 


1 


87 


5 


04 


1 


40 



48 



Quilts 

Sheets 

Bed-sacks 

Comfortables 

Pillows... 

Pillow-cases 

Stomach Pads 

Arm Slings 

Trusses 

Smoking Caps 

Hats and Caps 

Combs 

Housewives 

Mosquito Netting 

Sponges 

Shoes for Artificial Les^... 

Flannel Sashes 

Green Eyeglasses 

Bags lbs 

Lint do 

Bandages dozens 

Canes 

Crutches pairs 

do spring pairs 

Paper, reams 

Envelopes, box 

Pens gross 

Lead Pencils , 

Postage Stamps , 

Medical Saddle Bags , 

Castile Soap lbs 

Chewing Tobacco do 

Chocolate do 

Cocoa do 

Tea do 

Sugar, white do 

Condensed Milk cans 

Honey jars 

Lemon Syrup bottles 

Preserves and Jellies, cans. 
Tomatoes do . 

Beef Extract do . 

Farina lbs 

Corn Starch do 



9 $54 00 

35 70 00 

6 12 00 

1 6 00 

11 16 50 

23 9 20 

1 25 

7 1 75 

4 14 00 

12 6 00 

104 52 00 

6 48 

126 31 50 

2 30 

4 48 

2 6 00 

1 30 

10 2 50 

12 3 00 

13 6 50 

5 8 75 

564 186 12 

23 12 65 

1 5 50 

2i 4 20 

If 1 67 

U 78 

1 04 

375 11 25 

1 13 50 

6 1 50 

675J 371 53 

19 10 64 

2 1 12 

101 14 18 

87 25 23 

3 2 10 

1 70 

2 1 00 

64 32 00 

5 2 00 

2 2 00 

5Q 7 00 

69 8 28 



49 



Ground Spice lbs... 




1.... 
3.... 


$ 69 


Eice do.... 





30 


Holland Gin 


bottles...... 


2.... 


2 50 


•Tamaica Rum 


do 

do 

do ...... 


2.... 


. . 2 00 


do Ginger 
Essence do 


7.... 
9.... 


2 10 

2 70 


Cologne 
Sherry Wine 
Domestic Wine 


do 

do 

do 


1... 


50 


11.... 
10.... 


11 00 
5 00 


Foreign Wines 
Cordials 


do 

do 


9.... 
62.... 


9 00 
31 00 


Blackberry Brandy 

do Syrup. 
Brandy, 
Whisky, 


do 

do ...... 

do ...... 

do 


16.... 

2.... 

16.... 

15.... 


12 80 

1 00 

24 00 

26 25 


Schenck's Tonic, 


do ...... 


3.... 


3 00 


do Syrup, 
Cuffs, pairs 


do 


3.... 
1.... 
1.... 


3 00 
25 


Boots, do 


Total. 


4 00 




$20,779 65 



ISSUED 

TO 

U. S. TRANSPORT STEAMERS 

For the year ending December 31st, 1864. 



Articles. Number. Value, 

Woolen Shirts :.. 80 $160 00 

Cotton do ,.. 201 351 76 

Drawers, wool 25 50 00 

do cotton 44 77 00 

Socks, wool, pairs 100 36 00 

Cushions 12 3 00 

Pillows 4 6 00 

Pillow Cases 6 2 40 

Sheets 6 12 00 

Quilts 4 24 00 

Towels 136 23 12 

Comfortables.... 30 165 00 

Small Splints 6 72 

Lint, lbs 10 5 00 

Rags, do 25 6 25 

Pipes 50 , 25 

Note Paper, reams 4 8 00 

Envelopes, box 5 5 00 

Lemons, do 2 26 00 

Gelatine, lbs i 32 

Farina, do 5 , 25 

Soda Crackers, do 104 U 44 

Potatoes, barrels ,,, 3 18 75 

Onions, do 2 , 15 50 

Beets, do ,.. 3 14 25 

Dried Fruit, lbs 50 10 00 

Apple Butter, gallons 10 10 00 

Tomatoes, jars .....,,,,..,. 39......... 15 60 



51 

Preserves and Jellies, cans 51...,,.... $25 50 

Condensed Milk, lbs 12 ^ ^U 

Pickles, gallons... ..,....• U.. ..,,... i ^^ 

Blackberry Brandy, bottles '24 i^ ^^ 

Cologne, clo 12 ^^ 

.Flavoring Extract, do ^•••.- ^ 

Total, $1^120 50 



REPORT 



GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT 



PHILADELPHIA BRANCH 



U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION, 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



JANUARY 1st, 1866, 



PHILADELPHIA: 
KING & BAIRD, PRINTERS, No. 607 SANSOM STREET. 

1866. 



REPORT 



GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT 



PHILADELPHIA BRANCH 



U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION, 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 



JANUAEY 1st, 1866. 



PHILADELPHIA: 
KING & I3AIRD, PRINTERS, No. 607 iSANSOM STREET. 

1866. 



71 



p 



R h: I> O R T 

OF 

GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT, 

TO 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

OF 

PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATES, 

JANUAEY 1st, 1866. 



U. S Sanitary Commission, Philadelphia Agency, 
1307 Chestnut Street, 

Janumnj 1st, 18G6. 

To the Executive Committee of the 

Philadelphia Branch of the U. S. Sanitary Commission. 

Gentlemen: 

I have the honor to submit herewith a report of this 
Branch of the Commission, from the 1st of January, 
1865, to the present time, with a review of the work 
prior to that period.' 

The opening of the past year found the Sanitary 
Commission fully occupied in all its departments, both 
at home and in the field. The operations of General 
Grant before Richmond, and the rapid movements of 
General Sherman through the Southern States, made it 
necessary for the Commission to be prepared with abun- 
dant supplies at every point on the Atlantic coast, where 
there was a possibility of their being needed. This 
involved a large expenditure throughout the winter 
months, a time when it has been usual to contract our 
issues very considerably. While this extensive work 
was being performed, the officers of the Commission 
were preparing largely for the spring and summer cam- 
paign. Hospital supplies were collected, and arrange- 



ments made for a still more effective corps of Relief 
Agents for the field. It was fortunate that the gene- 
rous support of the puhlic enabled us to make these 
preparations. Although the requirements of the Com- 
mission for battle-field relief were comparatively small, 
it became apparent, immediately after the surrender of 
the rebel armies, that the Commission would have a 
large work to do during the passage of the troops from 
the field to their homes. Before the army of General 
Sherman had reached Washington, immense requisitions 
were made upon us for antiscorbutics, etc. Almost simul- 
taneously with this demand came the orders from the 
War Department to reduce the Army expenses. These 
orders were at once felt by us in an increased demand 
for many necessary things, heretofore supplied by the 
Government. These articles have been freely issued. 
The Homes and Lodges of the Commission have been 
open to those needing rest and refreshment on their 
journey homeward. The Protective War-Claim and 
Pension Agencies have saved the soldiers hundreds of 
thousands of dollars, by collecting their dues free of 
charge and preserving them from sharpers ; while the 
Bureau of Employment has been the means of aid- 
ing many in obtaining comfortable and remunerative 
situations. 

It has been thought by many that the great object of 
our Philadelphia iVgency was merely to collect money 
and supplies, and to forward them to the scene of war, 
and that the benevolent of our city Avould amply care 
for all the suffering and distress which should be found 
in our midst. 

The number of men who passed through this city on 
their way to join the Army, and on their return home, 



in the aggregate amounted to one million two hundred 
and fifty thousand. The number who w^ere treated in 
General Hospitals in this Department, during the war, 
was one hundred and fifty-seven thousand. The num- 
ber stationed at this post, recruited in the vicinity, or 
remaining here under orders from the Government, in- 
cluding Provost Marshal's men, drafted men, etc., was 
not less than one hundred and fifty thousand; making 
a grand total of fifteen hundred and fifty-seven thousand 
men, who have passed through or remained for a time 
in this city, duiing the war. 

From those passing through numbers are constantly 
left behind, from sickness, straggling, or other causes. 
A very small per centage of these makes a very large 
aggregate to be cared for. In our General Hospitals, 
notwithstanding the unwearied self-sacrificing labors of 
hundreds of devoted men and women and the most 
generous support of our fellow-citizens, the cry has 
come daily to tha Sanitary Commission, send us more 
clothing, more delicacies. But the class which suffered 
most severely, and had the least attention paid to them, 
until the Commission undertook their relief, includes 
the camps of newly-recruited regiments, discharge 
camps, places of rendezvous for drafted men, barracks, 
etc. The amount of ignorance frequently displayed by 
officers just entering the service is perfectly astonishing. 
Sick men have repeatedly been allowed to lie upon the 
ground, half cared for, with inadequate food, within a 
half mile of comfortable hospital accommodation, for no 
other reason than the ignorance of their officers as to 
how they should have them admitted. At most of the 
barracks and camps provided for temporary accommo- 
dation very little provision was made for the comfort of 



the well men, and less for the sick. It was quite man- 
ifest, therefore, that the Commission had no small task 
to accomplish in this city and its immediate Ticinity. 
It was apparent, too, that the work, to be done well, 
must be done systematically, under proper departments 
and officers. 

In the early history of the Commission in this city, 
the collection and dispatch of supplies was the chief 
object. As necessity arose other provisions were made. 
Early in the spring of 1863 the Hospital Directory was 
opened. About the same time the Supply Department 
was reorganized on a much enlarged and more effective 
scale, under the direction of the Women's Pennsylvania 
Branch. Soon the increasing demands called for the 
appointment of a Special Relief officer, and a system of 
Hospital visiting ; then the Protective War-Claim and 
Pension Agency ; then the Lodge for the accommoda- 
tion of passers through, and those delayed from a variety 
of causes; and finally, when the war was over, the 
Bureau of Employment, for the purpose of assisting 
discharged soldiers to obtain suitable occupation. 

How far the Commission has been able to give relief 
in these various Departments will be seen from the fol- 
lowing reports. 



GENERAL OFFICE. 

Very soon after the establishment of this Agency 
the extent and variety of its operations made it neces- 
sary to have a General Office, through which all the 
orders of the General Secretary and of the Executive 
Committee should pass, and where reports should from 



7 

time to time be received from the difFercnt Depart- 
ments. 

With the rapid growth of the Commission came a 
corresponding increase of miscellaneous work, which 
had not been provided for. All of this was intrusted 
to the care of the General Office. 

Among its most onerous duties w^ere the following : 

1st. The reception and care of goods sent from other 
Branches to this city, to be retained here until required 
for immediate use. 

2d. Providing transportation for all stores shipped 
from this point. This involved the chartering of steam- 
boats and barges, and sometimes the purchase of horses 
and wagons. 

8d. The employment of suitable persons to act as 
E-elief Agents and nurses. 

4th. Informing the public of the Avants of the soldier, 
through newspapers and documents published by the 
Commission. 

5th. Corresponding with other offices of the Com- 
mission. 

The following is a list of the expenses of the General 
Office, from October 15, 1861, to December 31, 1865: 

Kent of Office $ 366 56 

Salaries of Clerks 3,513 62 

Books, Stationery and Printing 647 92 

Advertising 1,099 21 

Postages and Telegraphs 335 92 

Furniture, Eepairs, Fuel and Lights 690 77 

Travelling expenses of Belief Agerits 1,306 83 

Miscellaneous 603 47 

Total $8,564 30 



THE WOMEN'S PENiYSYLVANIA BRANCH. 

Supply Departjient. — On the evening of the 2i:th 
of February, 1863, the Academy of Music in this city 
was thronged by an assemblage of citizens, who came 
to listen to a statement of the claims of the United 
States Sanitary Commission upon the American people. 
The President, the E-ev. Dr. Bellows, addressed the au- 
dience at length, making a clear exhibition of the Com- 
mission's objects and work, and ending with a forcible 
appeal to the sympathies of the assembly. A strong 
and favorable impression was produced. 

On the following morning a large number of ladies 
met in the foyer of the Academy, upon the invitation 
of Dr. Bellows, and formed themselves into an auxiliary 
organization, to which they gave the name of " The 
Women's Pennsylvania Branch of the United States 
Sanitary Commission." This organization consisted of 
an Executive Committee of fifteen, a Committee for 
Special Relief of Soldiers and their Families, and a 
Finance Committee; the three Committees, with the 
addition of a few members at large, composing the 
Board of Managers. 

In forming their Constitution and planning their 
work the Executive Committee was largely indebted to 
the presence of Miss Louisa Lee Schuyler, of the Wo- 
men's Central Association of Relief in the city of New 
York, whose large experience and valuable suggestions, 
being made available to the Pennsylvania Branch, were 
no doubt a prominent cause of the early and large suc- 
cess which attended its efforts. An Agency of the 



Commission for the Collection of Hospital Supplies had 
existed in Philadelphia from the beginning of the war, 
but the field of its operations, though large and rich, — 
inckiding, as it did, the whole of Eastern Pennsylvania, 
the State of Delaware, and the southern half of New 
Jersey, — had been very imperfectly cultivated. In fact 
the people outside of the cities knew little of the Sani- 
tary Commission. 

Woman's instrumentality had been successfully 
used in the West, in New York, and New Eng- 
land, in raising supplies for its work; and the only 
reason it had not been tried in Philadelphia was one 
most complimentary to the patriotic spirit of the city, 
Philadelphia had been rivalled by no city in the vast 
amount of voluntary service it had rendered to the na- 
tional cause. Her Refreshment Saloons, her Volunteer 
Hospital, the vast amount of self-sacrificing work of her 
citizens for the sick and wounded soldier, will fill the 
proudest pages in the future annals of the city. Phila- 
delphians had already done so much, that the Commis- 
sion hesitated long as to the propriety of appealing to 
them for aid, after the mode which had been pursued 
in other cities. But the appeal was made, and Phila- 
delphia responded, by showing that the readiness to do 
much only proved the ability to do more. On the 26tli 
of March, 1863, the Supply Department of the Phila- 
delphia Agency was transferred to the Executive Com- 
mittee of the Women's Pennsylvania Branch. A large 
and commodious building, No. 1307 Chestnut Street, 
was rented, and the new organization commenced its 
work. How rapidly the work grew, and how greatly 
its results exceeded our anticipations, are now matters 
of pleasant memory with us all. The number of con- 



10 

tributing Aid Societies was largely increased in a few 
weeks, and this was accompanied by a corresponding 
augmentation of the supplies received. The summer 
came, and with it sanguinary Gettysburg, with its heaps 
of slain and wounded, giving the most powerful impulse 
to every loving patriotic heart. Supplies flowed in 
largely, and from every quarter; and we found that 
our work was destined to be no mere holiday pastime, 
no matter of sudden impulse, but that it would require 
all the thought, all the time, all the energy we could 
possibly bring to bear upon it. We had indeed put on 
the armor, to take it off only when soldiers were no 
more needed on our country's battle-fields, because the 
flag of the Union was waving again from every one of 
her cities and fortresses. Then came the bloody battles 
and glorious victories, with their depressing and their 
exhilarating effects. But, through the clouds and 
through the sunshine alike, our armies marched on, 
fought on, steadily and persistently advancing towards 
their final triumph. And so in the cities, in the vil- 
lages, in the quiet country homes, in the luxurious 
parlor, in the rustic kitchen, everywhere, always, the 
women of the country too pursued their patriotic, lov- 
ing work, content if the toil of their busy fingers might 
carry comfort to even a few of our bleeding, heroic sol- 
diers. And as they labored in their various spheres, 
the results of their work poured into the great centres 
where supplies were collected for the Sanitary Commis- 
sion. Our Department came to number over three 
hundred and fifty contributing Societies, besides a large 
number of individuals contributing with almost the 
regularity of our auxiliaries. Associate Managers, 
whose business it was to supervise the work in their 



11 

own neighborhoods, had been appointed in nearly every 
county of the entire Department, fifty-six Associate 
Manaofers in all. The time came when the work of 
corresponding with these was too vast to be attended to 
by only one Corresponding Secretary. The lady who 
had filled that office with great ability, and to whose 
energetic zeal our organization owed its first impulse, 
was compelled by ill health to resign. Her place was 
filled by a Committee of nine, among whom the duty 
of correspondence was systematically divided. The 
work of our Associate Managers deserves more than 
the passing tribute which this report can give. They 
were nearly all of them women whose home duties 
gave them little leisure, and yet the existence of most 
of our Aid Societies is due to their efforts. In one of 
the least wealthy and populous counties of Pennsyl- 
vania, one faithful, earnest woman succeeded in estab- 
lishing thirty Aid Societies. When the Great Central 
Fair was projected their services were found most valu- 
able in the counties under their several superintendence, 
and they deserve a share of the credit for the magnifi- 
cent success of that splendid undertaking. 

The total cash value of supplies received is three 
hundred and six thousand and eighty-eight dollars and 
one cent. Of this amount, twenty-six thousand three 
hundred and fifty-nine dollars were contributed to the 
Philadelphia Agency before the formation of the 
Women's Branch. The whole number of boxes, bar- 
rels, etc., received since the 1st of April, 1863, is fifty- 
three hundred and twenty-nine. Of these packages, 
twenty-one hundred and three were received, from 
April 1st, 1863, until the close of the year; twenty- 
one hundred and ninety-nine were received in 1864 J 



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and one thousand and twenty-seven have been received 
since January 1st, 1865. During the present year, 
three hundred and ninety-six boxes have been shipped 
to various points where they were needed for the Army, 
and sixteen hundred and ninety-nine were sent to the 
central office at Washington City. The last item in- 
cludes the transfer of stock upon closing the depot of 
this Agency. The total number of boxes shipped from 
the Women's Pennsylvania Branch, since April 1, 1863, 
is two thousand and ninety-live. This means, of course, 
the articles contributed by Societies, and does not in- 
clude those purchased by the Commission, excepting 
the garments made by the Special E^elief Committee. 

At length our work is done. Our army is disbanding, 
and we too must follow their lead. No more need of 
our daily Committee and their pleasant aids, to unpack 
and assort supplies for our sick and wounded. God has 
given us peace at last. Shall we ever sufficiently thank 
him for this crowning happiness '? Kather shall we not 
thank him, by refusing ever again to be idle spectators 
when he has work to be done for any form of suffering 
humanity'? And if our country shall, after its baptism 
of blood and of fire, be found to possess a race of better, 
nobler American women, with quickened impulses, high 
thoughts, and capable of heroic deeds, shall not the 
praise be chiefly due to the better, nobler aims set before 
them by the United States Sanitary Commission ] 

The following is a list of the expenses of the Supply 
Department, from the time of its organization to Jan- 
uary, 1, 1866. These charges were incurred upon goods 
purchased in this city, as well as upon those contributed 
to the Women's Pennsylvania Branch. Their total value 



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is five hundred and ninety-six thousand four hundred 
and sixty-eight dollars and ninety-seven cents. 

Kent of Depository $2,876 QQ 

Wm. Piatt, Jr., Superintendent for expenses in- 
curred by him on supplies contributed 2,159 73 

Salary of Storekeeper and Porter 3,093 50 

Freight, express charges, cartage 7,115 22 

Boxes and material for packing 261 78 

Labor, extra 352 96 

Printing and Stationer}^ 928 49 

Advertising 2,310 59 

Fueland Lights 34:1: 03 

Fitting up Depository, including repairs 619 13 

Insurance on Stock 241: 00 

Postages 940 6Q 

Miscellaneous 668 11 

Total §21,914 86 



Relief Committee. — This Committee was organized 
in April, 1863, and had for its object, during the first 
months of its existence, the relief of the wants of sol- 
diers ; but finding a committee of women unequal to 
the proper performance of this duty, and at the same 
time having had brought before them the great neces- 
sities of the families of our volunteers, they resigned 
to other hands the care of the soldiers, and determined 
to devote themselves to the mothers, wives and children 
of those who had gone forth to battle for the welfare 
of all. 

The rooms in which this work has been carried on 
are at the south-east corner of Thirteenth and Chestnut 
Streets. 

Two Committees have been in attendance daily to 



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receive applications for relief, work, fuel, etc. Persons 
thus applying for aid are required to furnish proof that 
their sons or husbands were actually soldiers, and are 
also obliged to bring from some responsible party a cer- 
tificate of their own honesty and sobriety. It then 
becomes the duty of the Committee in charge to visit 
the applicant, and to afford such aid as may be needed. 

The means for supplying this aid have been furnished 
principally through generous monthly subscriptions from 
a few citizens, through the hands of Mr. A. D. Jessup. 
Donations and subscriptions, through the ladies of the 
Committee, have also been received, and from time to 
time acknowledged in the printed reports of the Com- 
mittee. 

It has been the aim of the Committee to provide 
employment for the women, for which adequate com- 
pensation has been given. The Sanitary Commission 
furnished material, which the Relief Committee had 
cut and converted into articles required for the use of 
the soldiers by the Sanitary Commission. Thirty-seven 
thousand nine hundred and fifteen articles have been 
made and returned to the Commission, free of charge. 
Finding the supply of work from this source inadequate 
to the demands for it, the Committee decided to obtain 
work from Government contractors, and to pay the 
women double the price paid by the contractors. 
Twenty thousand one hundred and seventy-four arti- 
cles were made in this way, and returned to the con- 
tractors who were kind enough to furnish the work. 
Eleven hundred and twenty-nine articles have been 
made for the freedmen, and five hundred and five for 
other charities ; making in all fifty-nine thousand seven 
hundred and twenty-three articles. 



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Eight hundred and thirty women have been employed 
in the two years during which the kbors of the Com- 
mittee have been carried on ; and it is due to the women 
thus employed to state, that of the number of garments 
made, but two have been missing through dishonesty. 

The sources from which work has hitherto been ob- 
tained having failed, through the blessed return of 
peace, and the destitution being great among those 
near and dear to the men whose lives have been given 
to purchase that peace, the Committee have determined 
not to cease their labors during the present winter. 

Two hundred women, principally widows, are now 
employed in making garments from materials furnished 
by the Committee. These garments are distributed 
to the most needy among the applicants for relief. 

More than four hundred tons of coal have been given 
out to the needy families of soldiers during the past two 
years, the coal being the gift of a few coal merchants. 

The receipts of the Committee have been as follows : 

From subscriptions and donations $28,300 00 

From entertainment oiven for the benefit of the 

Committee 1,4:4:4: 00 

From contractors in payment for work done 1,681 31 

From the Sanitary Commission 2,55 1 50 



Total §33,976 81 



This amount has all been expended, with the excep- 
tion of $248 47, which balance remained in the hands 
of the Treasurer on the 31st of December, 1865. 



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SPECIAL RELIEF. 

The Department of Special Ilelief, during the past 
year, has been, perhaps, the most important portion of 
ovu' work. During the early part of the year the de- 
mands for clothing and delicacies continued about the 
same as it had been previous to that time. As soon, 
however, as hostilities ceased, and the reduction of the 
expenses of the Government began, the demands upon 
us increased. The clothing accounts of several of our 
Hospitals were closed long before the Hospitals them- 
selves. Thus men were unable to obtain clothes, unless 
they bought them. Few had the means, however, to 
purchase, as they had not been paid for some time. 
Hundreds of men, who had been discharged and paid, 
were drugged and robbed in our city. Many discharged 
men, in the most destitute condition, remained here, in 
the hope of procuring employment. All these have 
claimed our attention, and the requisite aid has been 
afforded. 

The plan of constantly visiting the Hospitals, bar- 
racks and camps in the vicinity of this city has been 
pursued, with most satisfactory results. While w^e have 
been always at hand, and ready to supply real wants, 
the constant inspection which has been kept up has en- 
abled us to guard against improper and excessive drains 
upon our resources. The case of every individual ap- 
plicant for relief is very carefully investigated. The fact 
that the Sanitary Commission issues supplies free of 
charge is sufficient to bring large numbers of unworthy 
and dishonest men to our rooms. When it is stated 



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that not more than five or six out of every ten appli- 
cants receive anything, it can be readily perceived how 
much labor is necessary to select the worthy from the 
unworthy. 

The Special Relief Office was closed on the 19th of 
August last. By that time the necessity for its contin- 
uance had so far diminished that it did n.ot warrant the 
employment of an Agent. What little remained to be 
done was placed in charge of the Superintendent of the 
'Lodge. 

Fourteen thousand four hundred and sixty-five cases 
have received attention at the Special Relief rooms ; 
and Hospital supplies, clothing, etc., amounting in 
value to one hundred and two thousand five hundred 
and fifty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents have been 
issued, as follows : 

!N"umber of issues of supplies made to General and 

Yolunteer Hospitals and Transports 2,829 

Number of issues of supplies made to individual soldiers. 8,226 

Visits paid to Hospitals 468 

Visits paid to individual soldiers 434 

Referred to local Relief Associations 636 

Transportation and subsistence given to soldiers 1,449 

Miscellaneous 42 3 

Total 14,465 

Value of supplies issued to United States General 

Hospitals $49,871 m 

Value of supplies issued to United States Tran- 
sports 1;726 75 

Value of supplies issued to Volunteer Hospitals, 

Refreshment Saloons, Soldier's Home, &c 17,290 57 

Value of supplies issued to individual soldiers... 33,671 01 

Total $102,559 99 



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The following is a list of the expenses of the Special 
Relief Office : 

Kent of Office.., -. $250 00 

Salary of Agent and Clerk 2,200 00 

Postages , 6C^ 00 

Books, Stationery, Printing 169 49 

Furniture, Fuel; Lights, &c 146 98 

Transportation and Subsistence furnished 3,357 33 

Total $6,189 80- 



LODGE. 

The Executive Committee, on the 28th of February, 
1865, appointed a Committee to erect and put in ope- 
ration a ''Lodge," somewhat similar to those of the 
Sanitary Commission in Washington and other im- 
portant centres. Through the extreme kindness of 
Henry Helmuth, Esq., we were permitted to use the 
lot of ground on the south-west corner of Thirteenth 
and Christian Streets, containing one hundred and fifty 
feet on Thirteenth Street, by one hundred and fifty feet 
in depth on Christian Street. We were particularly 
fortunate in obtaining a location so exactly suited to 
our purposes. The great majority of troops arriving 
or departing from the city go to the Philadelphia, Wil- 
mington and Baltimore Railroad Depot. It was, there- 
fore, of the utmost consequence that the Lodge should 
be located in that immediate vicinity. A suitable plan 
for the building was at once agreed upon. Its erection 
was begun on the 27th day of March, and on the 12th 
day of May we received the first inmates. The inten- 



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tion was to provide accommodation for about seventy- 
five men, and twenty-five women, with facilities for 
giving three to four hundred meals a day. The pro- 
vision was soon found inadequate to the demands made 
upon us ; on some occasions as many as live hundred 
and seventy meals and two hundred night's lodgings 
had to be provided. 

It would perhaps have been better had the Lodge 
been established at an earlier period of the war. Its 
necessity, however, w^as not absolutely apparent until 
the latter part of the year 1864. So long as those ex- 
cellent institutions, the Citizens' Volunteer Hospital 
and the two Refreshment Saloons, could provide for the 
cases for which our Lodge w^as built, the Commission 
was unwillinof to interfere in ^vork thev were doinc: so 
efficiently. On the contrary, we contributed a large 
amount of hospital supplies to the Citizens' Volunteer 
Hospital, and five thousand dollars to each of the lle- 
freshment Saloons. 

It was fortunate, however, that the Lodge was estab- 
lished even for the short period of six months that it 
was open. The breaking up of our vast armies threw 
thousands of homeless, hungry men upon our hands, 
who, had it not been ibr this building, would have wan- 
dered about our streets, without food, obtaining shelter 
only in station-houses or dens of infamy. 

The Lodge was intended to provide for tlie following 
classes of men : 

1st. Men passing through this city, detained for a 
short period to make railroad connections, or requiring 
rest before proceeding. 



2o: 

2d. Men discharged from Hospitals in this Depart- 
ment, and waiting to receive their pay. 

8d. Men remaining in the city to have their claims 
for bonnty, back-pay and pension presented. 

4 th. Men sent here to have artificial limbs fitted. 

5th. Sick and wounded men requiring medical and 
surgical treatment before they could proceed homeward. 

6th. Discharged men seeking employment. 

7th. Women visiting relatives in our Hospitals. 

A thorough and systematic method was adopted of 
advertising to the soldiers everywhere the comforts of 
our Lodge. This was effected by means of posters in 
Hospitals, depots, Government offices, and public places. 
Thousands of cards were sent to Washington and else- 
where, and distributed at the railroad stations to men 
travelhng in this direction. Agents, wearing conspic- 
uous badges of the Sanitary Commission, were in attend- 
ance at the principal railroad stations on the arrival of 
trains, day and night, to protect those arriving from the 
horde of sharpers lying in wait to decoy and rob them. 
Tliose requiring food or shelter were immediately 
brought to the Lodge and made comfortable, arrange- 
ments having been made to provide meals during the 
night. While large numbers were being paid off the 
Paymaster's office was visited daily, and those detained 
there were provided with refreshment. 

Although a very limited provision was made at the 
Lodge for the sick, cases were constantly brought to our 
doors which it was impossible to reject. These w^ere 
taken in, and the best medical treatment afforded. In 
some few instances men, after remaining with us for a 
time, were admitted to the Pennsylvania Hospital. It 
not unfrequently happened that soldiers, in their anxiety 



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to reach home, accepted their discharge papers when 
they were quite unable to bear the fatigue of travel ; 
consequently they would break down on their journey, 
and remain with us until sufficiently recovered to 
proceed. 

But four deaths occurred at the Lodge, viz. : Lorenzo 
H. Veazie, Third Regiment New York Cavalry; Charles 
Diegerity, Sixty-fourth Company, Second Battalion V. 
R. C. ; Michael Wilson, Company A, Tenth Eegiment 
Y. H. C ; Patrick Began, Company B, Second U. S. In- 
fantry. 

Each man received a suitable burial, with proper 
religious services. A sufficient number from the in- 
mates of the Lodge always volunteered to form the 
escort. The friends were notified, when it was possible, 
both of the illness and death of the parties. 

During the summer squads of sick men, unable to 
leave the cars, were constantly passing through the city. 
On receiving notice from our Agent of their arrival, hot 
coffee and refreshments w^ere sent to the depot for their 
use. 

For the successful operation of the Lodge the Com- 
mission is largely indebted to its faithful Superintendent, 
Colonel Clement Soest. His untiring vigilance and in- 
dustry, united with a remarkable capacity for man- 
aging those under his charge, enabled him to conduct 
the establishment with the most gratifying success. 
Through the exertions of Miss S. B. Dunlap, to whom 
we are under great obligations for her untiring efforts 
at the Lodge, religious services were held on every 
Sunday afternoon. 

The Lodge was closed on the first day of November 
last. Those admitted were from the following States : 



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Maine 85 

New Hampshire 60 

Vermont 85 

Massachusetts 187 

Ehode Island 6 

Connecticut 54 

New York ' 985 

New Jersey 215 

Pennsylvania 2,333 

Delaware 90 • 

Maryland 78 

Yirginia 7 

West Virginia 3 

Ohio 115 

Indiana 57 

Illinois 30 

Michigan 85 

Iowa 3 

Minnesota 9 

Wisconsin 17 

Tennessee 7 

Missouri '. 5 

District of Columbia 22 

Veteran Keserve Corps 401 

United States Army 225 

Navy 70 

Colored Troops 390 

Miscellaneous 129 

Women and Children 90 

5,843 



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The reasons for admission were as follows : 

Passing through on furlough, duty or discharged 2,057 

Discharged from Hospitals and waiting for back pay, 

final pay, bounty or pension 2,729 

Waiting orders, or ordered to report in this city 86 

Sick 256 

Waiting for Government transportation 55 

Waiting to receive money from home 88 

Waiting for artificial limbs 109 

Seeking employment 884 

In search of parents or relatives... 10 

In charge of sick soldiers IS 

Waitino^ admittance to Soldier's Home 18 

Wives and mothers of soldiers 88 

Total 5,848 



The following table shows the admissions and number of 
meals and night's lodgings given at the lodge : 

No. of No. of No. of Night's 

Admissions. Meals. Lodgings. 

May 475 2,818...., 799 

June 1,746 10,697.....' 3,467 

July 1,220 11,140 4,012 

August 1,078 9,155 3,035 

September 799 8,072 2,705 

October 516 7,562 2,307 

November...: 9 285 58 



5,848 49,729 16,888 



A careful examination shows that the average cost 
of the meals given at the Lodge was about thirteen and 
a half cents. 

The cost of building, furnishing, and maintaining the 
Lodge was as follows: 



24 

Cash paid for erection of building and for furniture. .S9;701 55 
Bedding and furniture received from Women's - 

Pennsylvania Branch 2,401 97 



12,103 52 



From this should be deducted mate- 
rial given to the Freedmen's Aid 
Society and Soldier's Home, after the 
closins: of theLods'e.includincy heat- 
ers, ranges, gas-fixtures, plumbing, 
furniture, bedding, &c.. valued at... $3,437 14 

Cash received for sale of lumber 778 00 



4,215 14 



Cost to the Commission 7,888 38 

Expense of maintaining the Lodge : 

Cash paid for Provisions $6,773 70 

Wages 2,017 43 

Furniture 

Bedding 

Fuel and lights.... 

Medicines 

Repairs 

Transportation 

Undertaker's bills 

Sundries 

10,871 35 



Received from Women's Pennsylvania Branch: 

Provisions 

Clothing 

Medical stores 

Stationery 

Sundries «...., 



325 


87 


140 


00 


283 


09 


127 56 


627 


13 


186 07 


103 


00 


287 50 


ia Branch 


$1,253 


57 


687 


80 


384 


85 


52 


72 


18 


90 



2,397 84 



Total cost of building and maintaining Lodge... $21;157 57 



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HOSPITAL DIRECTORY. 

The usefulness of the Hospital Directory was more 
manifest than ever during the last months of the war. 
Many, who had heard nothing from their friends and 
relatives in the Army for a long period, had confidently 
expected, with the return of the troops, either to see 
the missing ones, or at least obtain positive tidings of 
their fate. Too often those expectations were disap- 
pointed. Some had deserted; others had dropped from 
the ranks from exhaustion or sickness, and been removed 
from Hospital to Hospital, without the officers of their 
regiments knowing anything of their whereabouts. All 
such inquiries have been received at our office and pa- 
tiently investigated. Months have sometimes elapsed 
before even a clew could be found to a missing man ; 
but the perseverance of our agents has generally been 
rewarded with success in the end. 

The number of inquiries from January 1, 1865, to 
the time of closing the Directory, were eight hundred 
and seventeen, of which seven hundred and sixty-one 
were successfully answered — about 93 per cent. 

In addition to this, advice and information of a mis- 
cellaneous character was given to about twenty-six hun- 
dred persons during the same period. 

The books of the Directory were closed on the 1st 
of May last. Since that time, however, we have not 
turned away any one asking our services. 

We have upon the books of the Directory eighty- 
nine thousand four hundred and fifty names, thirteen 



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thousand six hundred and twenty of which have been 
added during the year, viz.: 

New England States 13,202 

New York 21,6i8 

Pennsjdvania 30,776 

Other States east of the mountains... 5,228 

Western States 10,960 

Cnited States troops, white and col'd. 5,142 

Veteran Keserve Corps 774 

Miscellaneous org^anizations 1,720 

89,450 



o " -W 



Total number of inquiries and answers on 

Correspondence book 4,021 

Information afforded 3,171 

No information afforded 850 

4021 

Advice, assistance and information of a mis- 
cellaneous character, such as the mode of 
procuring the bodies of deceased soldiers, 
the means of communicating with distant 
Hospitals, &c., &c., not included in^ the 
above report 7,250 

The following is a list of the expenses of the Hos- 
pital Directory : 

Kent of office $366 58 

Salary of Clerks 3,758 52 

Books, stationery, printing, advertising, 

&c 510 66 

• Furniture, fuel, lights, &c 229 56 

Postages and telegraphs 407 64 

Miscellaneous expenses 43 17 

$5,316 12 



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PROTECTIVE WAR-CLAIM AND PENSION AGENCY. 

The following tables will show the state of the busi- 
ness of the Agency on the 31st of December, 1865. It 
will be seen by this exhibit that the number of claims 
received during the year exceed by two thousand and 
eighty-eight the entire number previously filed, from 
May 1st, 1863, a period of twenty months. More than 
three-fifths of the wliole number of claims have been 
finally disposed of; and in most of the remaining cases 
all the evidence required to effect their settlement has 
been filed in the proper Departments at Washington, 
and awaits its turn for official examination. 

AYith regard to the claims which are marked in these 
tables " Rejected," it is proper to state that the rule has 
been adhered to, of receiving every claim which has 
been presented, however defective in proof, except 
where fraud has been apparent, and submitting it to 
the action of the Departments. This course has added 
largely to the list of rejected cases, but has given, free 
of expense, to applicants the benefit of an official inves- 
tigation of their claims. In the great majority of in- 
stances, it is impossible, without a reference to records 
which are exclusively in possession of the Bureaus at 
Washington, to determine whether a claim is valid. 
Most of the claims for pensions which were rejected by 
the Commissioner of Pensions, were cases in which a 
full examination revealed the fact that the disability of 
the soldier had existed prior to the date of his enlist- 
ment. Those for bounty and back-pay, w^hich were 
passed upon unfavorably, were cases in which some 



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charge involving a forfeiture of the allowances of the 
the soldier appeared upon the company rolls, or in 
which no data could be found upon which to effect a 
settlement of his accounts. In attempting to settle 
these claims, it became apparent that, in very many in- 
stances, officers had been guilty of culpable negligence 
in making up the company records. In addition, the 
books of whole regiments were lost by capture, or were 
accidentally destroyed, and no possible means of supply- 
ing their entries existed. A large number of claims for 
pay due prisoners of war were also returned unsettled 
to claimants, in consequence of the general exchange 
of prisoners, which enabled the Paymaster-General to 
cause payments to be made directly to the men upon 
the regimental pay-rolls. 

The saving in the single item of attorney's fees, 
effected to claimants upon cases already set- 
tled, amounts at the lowest rates charged by 
Claim Agents, to the sum of $83,597 44 

If the claims still on hand shall be settled in the 
same proportions as those which have already 
been disposed of, an additional saving will have 
been effected of 52,114 21 

Making together the sum of §135,711 65 

This amount is based upon the supposition that the 
fees would have been in all cases such as are allowed 
by law. That the legal rates are often very largely ex- 
ceeded is a matter which can scarcely be doubted. 

The decrease in the number of claims presented at 
the office, in the months of November and December, 
was very marked. This fact, and the additional knowl- 
edge that the greater part of the Army has now been long 



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enough disbanded to have enabled those who desired it 
to avail themselves of the facilities afforded by this and 
other Agencies of the Commission, sufficiently justify 
the action of the officers in discontinuing the reception 
of claims with the close of the current year. 

Number of claims on file January 1, 1865, as per last 

report 4,355 

Number of claims received from January i, 1865, to 

December 31, 1865, inclasive 6,413 

Total number of claims on file 10,798 

These claims were subdivided as follows : 

For Pension 

Of Invalid Soldiers 3,178 

Of Widows of Deceased Soldiers 1,081 

Of Mothers " " 334 

OfMinor Children '' '' 58 

4,651 

For Bounty and Back-Pay 

Of Discharged Soldiers 3,017 

Of Widows of Deceased Soldiers 998 

OfMothers " " 405 

Of Fathers " " 629 

Of Brothers and Sisters of Deceased Soldiers... 285 

5,334 

For pay due Prisoners of War or payable to the 

Wives or Mothers of Prisoners 345 

For Prize-money of Seamen ., 328 

For Commutation of Kations due Prisoners of War.. 140 

10,798 

Of these 6,657 cases have been settled by the Departments, 
as follows : 



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Rejected or 
Granted. Abandoned. 

For Pension 

OfSoldiers - 1,858 214 

Of Widows 560 94 

Of Mothers 162 45 

Of Minors 19 11 

For Bounty and Back- Pay 

Of Discharged Soldiers 1,100 502 

Of Widows 567 55 

Of Mothers 233 32 

Of Fathers 395 30 

Of Guardians, Brothers and Sisters 140 25 

For Prisoners' Pa}- 218 127 

" Prize-money 178 12 

" Commutation of Eations 58 22 

5,488 1,169 

Total, 6,657 cases. 

The claims still awaitins; settlement are distributed as 
follows : 

For Pension 

Of Invalid Soldiers 1,106 

Of Widows 427 

Of Mothers 127 

Of Minors 28 

1,688 

For Br)unty and Back-Pay 

Of Disc harged Soldiers 1,415 

Of Widows 376 

Of Mothers 140 

Of Fathers 204 

Of Brothers, Sisters, &c 120 

2,255 



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For Prisoners' Pay none 

For Prize-money 138 

For Coinmutation of Eations 60 

Total 4,U1 



The following tables will show the amoimts collected 
in cash, with the average value of each claim : 

Acrsrre^ate 
Vulue. Total. 

For Bounty and Back- Pay 

Of Discharged Soldiers §157 04 $172/742 81 

Of Widows 210 88 119,569 30 

OfMothers 195 17 45,473 50 

Of Fathers 195 20 77,122 75 

Of Brothers and Sisters 183 73 25/720 62 

For Prisoners' Pay Ill 57 24,322 55 

" Prize-money 150 92 26,864 86 

" Commutation of Rations.... 33 41 1,938 00 

$493,754 39 

Estimating the pensions to have commenced 
January 1, 1864, and to have averaged six dol- 
lars per month for invalid soldiers, and eight 
dollars per month for widoAVs and mothers, the 
amoimts collected or payable upon these claims 
on the 13st of December, 1865, would be as fol- 
lows, viz. : 
1,858 Pensions for Invalid soldiers..$267,552 00 

560 " " Widows 107,520 00 

162 '' " Mothers 31,104 00 

19 " " Minors 3,648 00 

■ 409,824 00 

Total collected np to December 31, 1865.. ..$903,578 39 



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The following is a list of the expenses of the Agency 
lip to the'present time: 

Kent of office 733 13 

Salaries of Solicitors and Clerks 10,454 68 

Books, stationery and printing 1,860 30 

Advertising 372 45 

Furniture, fuel, lights, &c 1,267 67 

Postages 1,349 28 

Travelling expenses 43 50 

Miscellaneous 353 14 

Cash advanced to claimants in distress, to be repaid 

on receipt of their Pensions, Back-pay, kc 300 00 

$16,734 15 



BUREAU OF EMPLOYMENT. 

Under the direction of the Executive Committee, this 
Bureau was established, on the first day of December 
last. Its object is to aid disabled and honorably dis- 
charged soldiers and sailors in obtaining employment. 

The long-tried and valuable services of Mr. John W. 
Wilson, in connection with the Commission, indicated 
that he was the person to whom the charge of the un- 
dertaking could be best confided. If success is attain- 
able, it is certain that it will be secured under his 
superintendence. 

To accomplish any considerable results in this Bureau, 
we must have the cordial support of all our fellow-citi- 
zens who have employment to give. The whole city and 
suburbs are now being canvassed by a competent Agent. 
So far he has met Avith most gratifying assurances of 
assistance and co-operation. 



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The present season is probably the most unfavorable 
for procuring employment. The prospects are that 
toward February or March we shall meet with more 
decided encouragement. 



It will be observed, from the foregoing report, that 
the Supply Department, under the charge of the 
Women's Pennsylvania Branch, the Special Eelief 
Office, the Hospital Directory, and the Lodge are now 
entirely closed. The Protective War-Claim and Pen- 
sion Agency ceased to receive claims on the 1st of Jan- 
uary, 1866. Their business is now being settled as 
rapidly as possibly. The Bureau of Employment and 
the Relief Committee of the Women's Branch alone 
remain in active operation. 

Before closing, it may perhaps be interesting to give 
a very brief summary of what has been accomplished 
by the Philadelphia Agency, from the date of its organ- 
ization to the present time. This cannot be done with 
absolute accuracy, because it is impossible to estimate 
the true value of much of the material contributed, the 
voluntary labor bestowed, and the gratuitous railroad, 
telegraph, and other facilities afforded. In making an 
estimate of these things care has been taken that their 
value should not be overstated. The result, however, 
is believed to be substantially correct. 



Supply Department — Hospital supplies, delicacies, 
clothing, etc., amounting in value to three hundred and 
six thousand and eighty- eight dollars and one cent, 
collected, unpacked, assorted, stamped, repacked, and 
shipped. 



34 

Committee for the Relief of Soldiers' Families. — Eight 
hundred and thirty women, the wives and widows of 
soldiers provided with work at a fair remuneration; 
fifty-nine thousand seven hundred and twenty-three 
articles made; four hundred tons of coal distributed to 
needy families. 

Special Relief Office. — Eleven thousand and fifty-five 
issues of Hospital supplies ; clothing, etc., made, to 
camps, barracks. General Hospitals, and individual 
soldiers, amounting in value to one hundred and two 
thousand fixe hundred and fifty-nine dollars and ninety- 
nine cents; transportation and subsistence given in four- 
teen hundred and forty-nine cases, at a cost of thirty- 
three hundred and fifty-seven dollars and thirty- three 
cents ; nineteen hundred and sixty-one miscellaneous 
cases of relief attended to. Total number of cases, 
fourteen thousand four hundred and sixty-five. 

Sanitary Commission Lodge. — Fifty-eight hundred 
and forty-three persons admitted ; forty-nine thousand 
seven hundred and twenty-nine meals, and sixteen thou- 
sand three hundred and eighty-three night's lodgings 
furnished. 

Hosj)it(d Directorij. — Information obtained, for rela- 
tives and friends, of missing soldiers, in thirty-one hun- 
dred and seventy-one cases ; advice and assistance given 
in seventy-two hundred and fifty cases. 

Protective War-Claim and Pension Agency. — Ten 
thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight claims for 
pensions, bounty, back-pay, etc., received and placed on 



35 

file. Of these, fifty-four hundred and eighty-eight have 
been granted, eleven hundred and sixty-nine have been 
rejected or abandoned, and forty-one hundred and forty- 
one await adjustment. The cash value of settled claims 
collected up to December 31, 1865, is nine hundred and 
three thousand five huudred and seventy-eight dollars 
and thirty-nine cents. Amount saved to claimants, in 
fees to attorneys, on cases filed, one hundred and thirty- 
five thousand seven hundred and eleven dollars and 
sixty-five cents. 

SUMMAKY OF EE0EIPT3 AND EXPENDITUEES. 

The total amount in cash contributed to the Treasury of 
the Philadelphia Agency, including the proceeds of the 
Great Central Fair, is $1,186,515 14 

The total amount in case contributed to the Kelief Com- 
mittee of the "Women's Pennsylvania Branch, excluding 
$2,551.50, received from the Treasurer of the Philadel- 
phia Agency, and $1,681. 31 received by them from con- 
tractors for work done, is 29,744 00 

Total amount of cash received by the Philadelphia 

Agency 1,216,289 li 

Cash value of hospital supplies, clothing, &c., received by 

the Philadelphia Agency 303,088 01 

Cash value of four hundred tons of coal, received by the 

Relief Committee of the "Women's Pennsylvania Branch, 3,000 00 

Estimated value of volunteer labor and railroad and other 

facilities rendered free of charge 40,000 00 

Total contributions of all kinds to the Philadelphia 
Agency $1,565,377 15 

This amount has been distributed as follows : 
For the support of the work of the Sanitary Commission 
in Philadelphia and its vicinity, including cash remain- 
ing in the hands of the Treasurer of the Philadelphia 

Agency $303,554 63 

For the general work of the Sanitary Commission 1,261,822 52 

$1,565,377 15 

3 



36 

In conclusion, permit me to express my sincere 
thanks to the gentlemen of the Executive Committee 
for the cordial support and co-operation always afforded 
me in the discharge of the duties of my position. To 
this and the untiring zeal of those ladies and gentlemen 
so actively engaged at our rooms is largely due what- 
ever measure of success has attended the operations of 
the Philadelphia Agency. 

Respectfully submitted. 

ROBERT M. LEWIS, 

General Superintendent, 

PhiladeljpMa, January 1, 1866. 



APPENDIX 



REPORT OF CALEB COPE, TREASURER, 

PHILADELPHIA AGENCY, 

TO JANUARY 1, 1866. 



Total amount of Collections and Subscriptions 

to January 1,1866 $189,685 43 

Proceeds of Great Central Fair, witli interest... 1,016/859 71 

Total Contributions $^1,186,545 14 

Cash received from Insurance Company of 
IN'ortli America for loss sustained by fire at 

Depository 913 11 

Casli received for re-sale of Material not re- 
quired for use at the termination of the 
war 2,680 98 



§1,190,139 23 



DISBUESEMEXTS. 

To cash paid for Hospital Sup- 
plies, Clothing, &c 8290,380 96 

Expenses of General Office 8,564 30 

Expenses of Supply Department 

on goods received and shipped 21,914 86 

Expenses of Special Relief Of- 
fice 6,189 80 

Expenses of Hospital Directory.. 5,316 12 

Expenses of War-Claim and Pen- 
sion Agency 16,734 15 

Expenses of Bureau of Employ- 
ment to January 1, 1S66 454 37 

Expense of Building and Main- 
taining Lodge 20,572 90 



39 

Cash paid Kelief Committee of 

AVomen's Pennslvania Branch $2,551 50 

Cash paid H. A. De France for 
Commissions on Subscriptions 
Collected 1,449 47 

Cash paid Office Expenses of 
Editor of Sanitarj^ Commission 
Bulletin 244 05 

Cash paid Union Yolunteer Re- 
freshment Saloon 5,000 00 

Cash paid Cooper Shop Volun- 
teer Refreshment Saloon 5,000 00 

Cash paid Soldiers' Home 500 00 

Cash paid Pennsylvania Hospital 1,000 00 

Cash paid Expenses of Lectures 

given by the Rev. Dr. Bellows 755 84 

Cash paid Great Central Fair 6Q6 45 

Cash, paid Miss Dix 700 00 

Cash paid Miss Harris 20 00 

Cash remitted to Geo. T. Strong, 
Treasurer U. S. Sanitary Com- 
mission, being proceeds of Lec- 
ture by the Rev. H. Ward 
Beecher 1,848 56 

Cash remitted to Geo. T. Strong, 
Treasurer IT. S. Sanitary Com- 
mission, by order of the Exec- 
utive Committee of the Phila- 
delphia Associates 731,582 88 

$1,121,445 21 

Balance January 1, 1866 §68,694 02 

Deposited in U. S. Mint §26,000 00 

Loaned on Collateral Security 35,341 92 

Cash 7,352 10 

$68,694 02 



40 



ISSUES OF THE PHILADELPHIA AGENCY 



TJ. S. SANITARY COMMISSION, 

Including the Women's Pennsylvania Branch, from October 15th, 1861, 
to lecember 1st, 1865. 



Arrow Eoot, lbs 86 $39 75 

Adhesive Plaster, yds 110 28 00 

Azumea, boxes 101 10 10 

Apple Butter, gallons 845 732 50 

cans 980 29-1 00 

Aprons, muslin 10 5 00 

Arnica, bottles 120 30 30 

Arm Slings 5,521 1,334 25 

Blankets, wool 7,488 20,278 50 

gum 28 66 00 

Beef, lbs 379 68 22 

extract of, cans, lbs 9,509 9,509 00 

tea, '^ " 143 143 00 

soup, '' '•' 5,202 1,236 90 

roast, " " 13,242 3,058 02 

assorted, " '' 1,738 372 80 

corned, barrels 10 232 50 

dried,lbs 2,206 471 S6 

Julienne, cans, lbs 624 156 00 

a la-mode " " 4,080 1,020 00 

Barley, lbs 139 12 22 

Bread, loaves 959 76 72 

Butter, lbs 2,672 1,131 20 

Bandages, barrels 925 1,383 75 

dozens 2,096 2,936 39 



41 

Bandages, Boilers 12 $27 00 

Benches 29 43 50 

Bed Ticks 8,934 17,032 50 

" Ticking, yards 60 21 60 

" Chairs 180 378 60 

'' Spreads, quilted 232 949 75 

" Steads, iron 26 135 00 

" Pans 53 40 00 

^' Quilts and Comfortables 4,330 17,059 00 

Blouses, wool 357 1,121 50 

Brushes, hair 515 143 84 

Broma, lbs 336 177 42 

Bay Bum, bottles 1,783 1,008 10 

Boilers, iron 15 54 00 

circulating 1 100 00 

Bottles, glass, gross 3 42 00 

Blinds and Shades, yards 1,438 873 70 

Bromine, oz 500 330 00 

Body Bands 600 720 00 

Brooms 37 17 39 

Buckets 50 16 60 

Catsup and Sauces, bottles 1,227 376 88 

Cakes, lbs 444 Ill 00 

Crackers, lbs 38,827 4,568 20 

Candies 88 40 80 

Coffee, green, lbs 364 151 93 

extractor, " 670 342 14 

" ground '' 3,099 836 69 

roasted '' 101 49 40 

Codfish, '' 3,000 240 00 

Cheese, " 832 160 94 

Corn, dried, '' 215 11 28 

" meal, '' 19,681 518 14 

'' starch, " 13,530 1,593 04 

Chocolate, '' 2,204 1,150 24 

Cocoa, '' 1,750 830 92 

Matting, yards, 79 98 75 

Corks, gross 13 23 19 

Coats, light 332 641 00 

'^ wool 931 4,576 00 

" over 28 252 00 

Cigars 6,500 104 00 

Combs 50,048 3,020 48 

Collars 580 63 42 



42 

Canes 5,395 $1,753 55 

Cups, spit 913 144 25 

Comforters 37 12 95 

Cushions and Pads 12,298 2,630 50 

air 38 179 00 

oil cloth 199 52 80 

ring 270 67 50 

Cologne, bottles 1,869 503 50 

Caps....'. 1,121 560 50 

Chairs, Windsor 48 39 00 

" night 2 8 00 

" invalid 17 405 00 

" rocking 104 337 50 

Crutches, pairs 2,827 1,442 83 

" spring, pairs 15 78 50 

Candles, lbs 597 140 60 

Cooking utensils 101 67 

Coal Oil, gallons 43.... 39 54 

CaniDhor, spirits of, bottles 267 90 32 

'^ mixture " 730 153 30 

Chlorine powders 100 190 00 

Condensed Milk, lbs 61,330 20,155 88 

Camp Stoves 12 42 00 

Comfort Bags 226 56 50 

Clock 1 15 00 

Cod Liver Oil, bottles 36 27 00 

Drugs and Medicines 921 02 

Drawers, wool... 25,504 49,189 06 

cotton 24,451 27,783 87 

Canton flannel 5,413 9,308 05 

Eggs, dozens 1,722 433 60 

Egg Xogg, bottles 167 195 39 

Eye Shades 124 31 00 

^' Glasses, green 367 109 50 

Ear Trumpet^ 1 2 50 

" Warmers 227., 56 75 

Flavoring Extract, bottles 1,534 387 18 

Farina, lbs 7,083 902 64 

Flour, barrels 33 352 00 

Flannel, yards 425 220 73 

Fans 16,048 562 51 

Farinaceous food, lbs 4,716 478 80 

Flaxseed, '' 61 4 88 

Fruits, preserved, cans 3,270 1,504 80 

" Peaches, preserved, cans 1,846 722 00 



43 

FruitS; Peaclies, dried, lbs 749 ..... 

fresh, box 120 

Dried, lbs 10,841 

Apples, dried, lbs 28,700 

" '' " barrels 305 

" " green, bushels, 792 

'' Cranberries, barrels 5 

" '^ sauce, cans 120 

Figs, lbs 126 

" Hot-house Grapes, lbs 37 

" Lemons, boxes 293 

" Oranges, " 42 

Prunes, lbs 799 

Pine Apples 120 

Tamarinds, lbs 1,862 

kegs 28 

Finger Stalls 1;216 

Feathers, lbs 7 

Ginger, extract of, Jamaica, bottles... 7,950 

Gelatine, packages 162 

lbs 402 

Garden Tools — 

Glass Jars, dozens 156 

Golden Bitters, bottles 48 

Games, assorted 1,025 

Gas Stoves 1 — 

'^ Pipes and Fixtures 

Garden Seed c... 

Hand Printing Press 1 

Honey, lbs 196.... 

Ham, '^ 7,697 

Havelocks 262.... 

Hats 104.... 

Household Furniture 

Handkerchiefs 79,370...., 

Hominy, lbs 353 

Housewives 519 .... 

Isinglass Plaster, yards 12.... 

Jellies and Preserves, Jars 14,256 7,055 

Kitchen Kange , 1 . . . . 

Knives and Forks, dozens 208.... 

Lint, lbs 4,196.... 

Lard, " 181.... 

Lanterns 196 ... . 



$157 


29 


210 


00 


2,922 


55 


3,498 


70 


4,575 


00 


1,099 


13 


65 


50 


45 


00 


31 


50 


37 


00 


3,030 


63 


260 


00 


211 


80 


45 


00 


182 


88 


140 


00 


121 


60 


5 


60 


2,191 


65 


48 


06 


443 


10 


5 


75 


312 


35 


36 


00 


117 


74 


11 


25 


200 


00 


63 


37 


110 


00 


60 


20 


1,093 


61 


78 


60 


75 80 


90 


87 


11,351 


85 


21 


18 


129 


75 


9 


00 


7,055 50 


120 


00 


408 


25 


2,098 


00 


27 


10 


158 


00 



44 

Linen, old, lbs 3,040 $760 00 

Lime Juice, bottles 3,156 1,514 88 

Limes, barrels 3 48 00 

Lemon Syrup, bottles 1,723 888 38 

" Sugar, lbs 55 27 50 

Lime, Chloride of, lbs 118 11 80 

Liquorice, " .. 11 5 50 

Leg Boxes 26 19 50 

Medical Saddle Bags 80 00 

Mittens and Gloves, pairs 3,297 1,407 95 

Maizena, lbs 407 49 18 

Mosquito Netting, pieces 558 1,204 35 

Mattresses 154 389 50 

Mackerel, kits 20 55 00 

Mustard, lbs 48 21 60 

Matches, gross 29 88 75 

Match Safes, 22 4 40 

Muslin, yards 400 220 00 

Neck Ties 700 83 70 

Needle Books and Pin Cusbions 6,452 1,423 87 

Needles 17,500 37 00 

Nutmegs, lbs 53 104 Q6 

Nails, " 400 32 00 

Oat Meal, " 1,212 100 34 

Oil Silk, yards 65 78 75 

" Sweet, bottles 13 6 50 

Onions, pickled, jars 480 182 40 

Oysters, spiced, cans 243 102 06 

Pillows, Feather 6,639 9,854 20 

Cases 13,586 4,920 30 

Ticks 7,520 2,970 50 

Hair c... 237 339 80 

" Hop 75 56 25 

Pants, wool 1,443 5,195 50 

" thin 327 516 50 

Plumbing work 350 00 

Pails, wooden.. 170 51 00 

Pipes, boxes 9 11 00 

Pickles, gallons 8,028 4,336 50 

kegs 24 180 00 

'•' jars 5,570 2,785 00 

Pickled Cabbage, gallons 692 276 80 

kegs 31 139 50 

barrels 26 207 50 



45 

Pepper Sauce, bottles 152 $39 30 

" Mint, Essence of, bottles 195 33 50 

^' Hash, barrels 5 50 00 

Paper Bags , 2,000 2 50 

Pork, barrels 1 25 00 

Pins, packs 163 18 60 

Eubber Cloth, yards 5 10 75 

Eefrigerator 6 147 00 

Kusk, lbs 1,417. 85 02 

" barrels 35 174 80 

Razors 44 44 00 

Rags, muslin and linen, lbs 4,052 929 15 

'^ barrels 20 160 00 

Rice, lbs 1,035 120 02 

'^ Flour, lbs 223 26 49 

Syrups, assorted, bottles 734 287 50 

Saccharine Lemon Juice, bottles 993 496 50 

Sick Feeders 234 50 50 

Sinks, iron 27 50 

Splints, hospital, sets 2,183 1,405 55 

Shirts, cotton 30,216 35,567 50 

'' flannel 2,294 3,596 00 

wool 42,603 79,417 50 

Sugar, Avhite, lbs 10,078 2,316 86 

" brown, " 3,624 601 37 

" inaple, " 127 22 86 

Sheets, linen and cotton 10,550 12,705 75 

flannel 12 15 00 

Stone AVare, jars, dozens 14 35 00 

Shoes, pairs, 2,820 4,367 35 

" Gum, pairs 46 92 00 

Suspenders, '' 2,143 541 60 

Scissors, '' 126 39 05 

Slippers, " 9,550 6,417 65 

Sago, lbs 274 64 48 

Scrapple, lbs 234 18 19 

Sausage, " 443 92 15 

Sponges, lbs 98 279 00 

Spices, assorted, lbs 586 314 60 

Salt, bags 110 30 00 

Soap, assorted, lbs 4,571 705 35 

" Soft, barrels 1 8 00 

'' Castile, lbs 224 63 00 

Shields, Enamelled 12 12 00 



46 

Soup, Vegetable, cans 120 $60 00 

Stamp Covers 47 4 70 

Socks, cotton, pairs 34,799 10,059 80 

'' Avool '' 40,144 15,586 40 

Salve, boxed, dozens 4 1100 

Spittoons 50 15 00 

Settees 25 106 00 

Stretchers 6 32 00 

Scarfs and Wrappings 223: 58 75 

Spirometers 2 53 00 

Sardines, boxes 40 13 20 

Shoulder Braces 3 15 00 

Spoons, large, dozens 281 188 11 

Tea, '' 140 52 80 

Stoves and Furniture 5 96 60 

Stone Ware 40 35 

Tea, BLack, lbs 1,656 2,099 28 

" Green, " 1,524 2,146 50 

Tapioca, '' 108 23 00 

Tripe, spiced, lbs ".. 1,360 268 00 

Towels and Napkins 46,855 8,993 37 

Tobacco, Plug, lbs 14,734 9,470 43 

'' Smoking, lbs 11,744 5,473 76 

Trusses 13 47 00 

Test Tubes 100 10 00 

Thread, Patent, lbs 383 632 60 

" Cotton, spools, dozen 96 86 40 

Tables 79 50 

Table Cloths 154 382 00 

Toweling, yards 106 23 32 

Turbans 35 17 50 

Tubs, Bath 4 100 00 

Tin Ware, Basins 516 171 14 

Cups 5,419 455 56 

Plates 4,453 383 56 

" Candlesticks 100 39 20 

Pudding Pans 110 26 06 

SaucePans 13 8 40 

Boilers 1 4 75 

" Graters 48 4 80 

" assorted 16 08 

Urinals 14 10 50 

Yinegar, gallons 64 2100 

bottles Icl 18 87 



$13 


50 


660 


96 


16 


25 


69 


12 


13 


60 


679 


25 


87 


50 


27 


79 


,64:6 


30 


58 


40 


479 


2^ 



47 

Vinegar^ Aromatic^ bottles 54 

Kaspberry '' 1,632 

" " gallons 13 

Cider, gallons 192 

bottles 80 

Yegetables, Beets, barrels 143 

Beans, bushels 29 

" " cans 91 

Tomatoes, cans,., 37,000 11,646 30 

Preserved, '' 206 

" Cabbage, heads 5,343 

Onions, bushels 408 437 87 

" barrels 505 3,891 62 

Potatoes, " 193 947 75 

dessicated, cans.. 2 .* 32 00 

sweet, barrels.... 122 884 50 

" mixed 168 547 00 

" Succotash, cans 8 4 00 

Vests, cotton 203 224 35 

'' wool 459 756 25 

Vermicelli, lbs 13 3 90 

Water Coolers 1 8 50 

Washing Machines 3 30 00 

Wrappers 3,890 12,995 50 

Wringers 2 18 00 

Window Shades 16 40 00 

Writing Desks 4 21 00 

Wristlets 209 52 25 

Warming Pans 1 2 50 

Yarn, lbs 160 229 75 



WINES AND LIQUORS. 

Alcohol, gallons 18 29 00 

bottles. 34 20 40 

Ale and Porter, bottles 12,774 2,754 90 

barrels 165 1,781 00 

Brandy, gallons 176 990 00 

" " bottles 1,746 2,315 55 

Blackberry, bottles.. 1,798 1,348 45 

gallons 72 199 50 

Cherry, bottles 1,401 1,139 05 

Cordial, " " 179 89 50 

gallons 14 42 00 



48 

Cordial, Assorted, bottles 572 $286 00 

Blackberry, gallons 100 316 50 

Champagne, bottles 60 120 00 

Gin, Holland, '' 165 127 87 

Jamaica Eum, " 163 148 00 

Wine, Foreign, " 6,059 5,753 50 

" gallons 1,142 2,602 25 

" Domestic, bottles 5,345 2,313 30 

'' gallons 320 702 75 

Wbisky, gallons 1,180 1,818 00 

bottles 2,105 1,567 05 

Scbnapps, " 22 27 50 



BOOKS AND STATIONERY. 

Books and Pamphlets, boxes 40 560 00 

Books, volumes 819 307 12 

Eeading Matter 30 150 00 

Newspapers 14,968 263 43 

Envelopes 320,638 869 76 

Pencils, Lead 4,801 227 52 

Pen Holders 5,039 50 39 

Pens, Steel, dozen 2,056 161 50 

Postage Stamps 1,413 42 39 

Paper, Note, reams 413 1,110 00 

" Letter, " 257 1,335 50 

" Wrapping, reams 10 35 00 

Ink, bottles 1,350 120 58 

" gallons 4 8 00 

" and Inkstands 1,504 418 40 

Soldiers' Friend 84,007 8,400 70 



TRANSPORTATION. 

Horses 6 1,200 00 

Wagons, Sutler's 4 600 00 

Covers 5 87 50 

Tongues 5 22 75 

Heavy 4 655 00 

Coal and Wood for Steamers 1,249 45 

Harness, setts 8 142 50 

Halters 6 9 00 



49 

Whips 3 $3 00 

Hay, lbs 766 9 75 

Oats, bushels 48 28 80 

Bags. 5 4 50 

Packing Materials, Boxes, Barrels, 

Kegs, Paper, Straw 1,200 00 



$596,468 97 



Of this amount, The Women's Penn'a Branch 

and the Philadelphia Agency received 306,088 01 

Purchased by the Commission 290,380 96 

$596,468 97 



50 



ISSUES MADE 



U. S. A. GENERAL HOSPITALS 



In the Department of Pennsylvania, from October 15th, 1861, 
to December 1st, 1865. 



Army Slings , 1,120 $2-18 05 

Apple Butter, gallons 888 304: 50 

Arrow Root, lbs 2 1 10 

Adhesive Plaster, yards 16 -1 00 

Beef, Extract of, lbs 28 28 00 

" stock " 238......... 238 00 

" dried " 351 58 75 

" canned " 52 10 60 

Barley '' 6 1:2 

Bread, loaves 7 56 

Butter, lbs 31 203 30 

BedPans 1 1 00 

" Ticks 26 55 00 

" Chairs 3 -1 60 

" Quilts and Comfortables 176 676 20 

Bandages, barrels 16 160 00 

dozens 1,578 2,103 75 

Blouses 4 13 00 

Brushes, hair 86 18 70 

Bay Rum, bottles 195 91: 10 

Blankets, AYool 37 183 00 

Blinds and Shades, yards 1,286 710 70 

Canes 2,898 936 89 

Combs 1,209 69 10 

Catsup and SauceS; bottles 609 181:13 



51 



Cologne, bottles 

Condensed Milk, lbs... 
Crackers, " .. 

Corn Starch, '• .. 

" Meal, 

" Dried, 
Cocoa, " .. 

'^ Mattinsf, yards. 



106.. 

»150.. 

1,781.. 

531:.. 

916.. 

78.. 

165.. 

79.. 

Chocolate, lbs 165.. 

Coftee, Gronnd, lbs 61.. 

Extract of; lbs 1.. 

Candies, " 16.. 

Cakes, " 278.. 

Cheese, " 155.. 

Caps 48.. 

Cravats 74. . 

Chickens 13. . 

Coats, wool 78. . 

Crutches, pairs 710.. 

" Spring, pairs 2.. 

Camphor, SjDirits of, bottles 2.. 

Collars 24.. 

Candles, lbs 2 J. 

Coverlets ISr. 

Cushions and Pads 822 . . 

Air 6.. 

Eing 302.. 

Chairs, Invalid 8. . 

" Eocking, 75.. 

" " cane seat 20.. 

Eolling 2.. 

Drawers, wool 1,993.. 

cotton 1,038.. 

flannel 144., 

Drnofs and Medicines 

895.. 

61.. 

12., 

3,409.. 

12... 

52... 

1,447... 

51... 

2,715... 



Eggs, dozens 

Eye Glasses, green 

" Shades 

Fans 

Flavoring Extract, bottles 

Fruit, dried, assorted, barrels 

lbs 

" Apples, d];ied, barrels 

lbs 

" " green, bushels 345 

4 



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75 


41 


25 


213 


70 


60 


54 


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08 


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90 


71 


34 


98 


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62 


28 


83 




50 


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69 


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319 


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373 


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00 


141 


25 


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00 


506 


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824 


00 


310 47 


431 


25 



62 

Fruit, Apples, green, barrels 6 $30 75 

" Canned, cans..-. 172 78 50 

" Cranberries, bushels 1 '4 00 

'' Figs, lbs 5 1 25 

'' Grapes,lbs 25 25 00 

" Lemons, box 128 1,471 75 

" Oranges, " 17 117 00 

" Peaches, cans 9 3 60 

" Prunes, lbs 5 90 

Flaxseed, " 2 16 

Feathers, " 7 5 60 

Flannel, yards 29 18 85 

Finger Stalls 12 60 

Flour, barrels 3 24 00 

Farina, lbs 190 20 08 

Garden Seed 63 37 

Games, assorted 483 53 74 

Gelatine, packages 31 7 75 

lbs 16 18 20 

Ginger, Extract of. Jamaica, bottles... 40 • 11 10 

Garden Tools, sets 1......... 4 75 

Handkerchiefs 8,824 1,372 32 

Housewives 538 134 50 

Ham, lbs 160. 20 80 

Honey, lbs 18 5 75 

Ice Boxes 1 25 00 

Jellies and Preserves, jars 4,090 2,045 00 

Kerosene Lamp, cooking 1 1 25 

Lemon Syrup, bottles 99 4175 

" Sugar, lbs 266 123 02 

Lint, " 1,400 700 00 

Lard, " 30 4 20 

Liquorice " 2 1 00 

Linen, old and rags, lbs 3,699 753 45 

" barrels 3 80 00 

Mattresses 1 3 50 

Mosquito Netting 30 46 00 

Mittens and Gloves 219 106 25 

Nutmegs, lbs 2i 2 07 

Graters 10 1 20 

Needle Books and Pin Cushions 60 7 50 

Oat Meal, lbs 120 10 58 

Oil Silk, yards 9 9 25 

Pillows 492 733 60 



53 

Pillow Cases 502 $200 80 

" Arm 12 3 60 

Pants, wool 97 252 00 

Pickles, barrels 1 18 00 

kegs.- 95 00 

" gallons 1;791 1,151: 25 

" jars... 268 134 00 

Pickled Cabbage, gallons..-. 61 23 65 

Pipes 133 1 15 

Eice, lbs 61 4 88 

" Flour,lbs 28 2 80 

Eusk, barrels 15 74 20 

Eefrigerators 2 53 00 

Sago, lbs. 2 48 

Shirts, wool 4,465 8,322 50 

" cotton and cotton flannel 2,618 3,704 87 

Sheets 564 735 50 

Suspenders, pairs 192 48 09 

Slippers '■' 1,942 1,234 40 

Socks, wool, '' 2,899 1,110 04 

" cotton, '• 800 191 65 

Splints, sets 48 19 20 

Segars 100 1 60 

Shoes, pairs 6 9 30 

" Gum, pairs 1 2 00 

Sugar, white, lbs..... 394 92 42 

" Maple, '' 10 1 80 

Syrups, bottles 227 102 75 

Shields, enamelled 12 12 00 

Sausage, lbs 185 16 88 

Scrapple,'' m 3 96 

Spices, assorted, lbs 10 6 00 

Soap, '- " 234 35 10 

Stove, Gas 1 1125 

Tea, black, " 70 67 14 

"• green, " 11 11 00 

Tapioca, " 8 2 00 

Tallow, " 10 1 00 

Tamarinds, " 377 37 38 

jars 8 6 00 

Towels.... 2,270 386 62 

Tobacco, plug, lbs 870 565 05 

smoking, lbs 226 124 30 

Tongues, lbs 13 1 95 



54 



Tin Ware, cups.... 14.. 

" saucepans 2.. 

Yinegar, bottles 22.. 

" gallons 8.. 

" Easpberry, gallons 7 J. 

bottles 209.. 

Aromatic, " 36.. 

Vegetables; mixed, barrels 12.. 

Beans, bushels 3.. 

Onions, barrels 6 J. 

" bushels 33.. 

Potatoes, barrels 17}. 

bushels 23.. 

Tomatoes, cans 417.. 

Tests, wool 23.. 

Wrappers 357 . . 

Washing Machines 1 . . 

Wringers 1 . . 

Yarn, lbs 1 • . 



$ 


70 




70 


8 75 


2 


75 


15 


00 


73 


31 


9 


00 


39 


00 


9 


00 


44 50 


33 


00 


101 


19 


57 00 


145 


10 


11 


50 


,035 


00 


10 


00 


9 


00 


2 


25 



WINES AND LIQUOES. 

Ale and Porter, bottles 280 40 40 

Brandy, bottles 143 180 95 

gallons 14 91 00 

Blackberry, gallons 149i 508 25 

bottles 212 168 75 

Cherry " 64 32 00 

Cordial, Blackberry, gallons 49| 148 50 

" Easpberry, gallons 2 6 00 

Champagne, bottles 52 104 00 

Gin, Holland, " 11 8 53 

Jam, jars 1 3 50 

Wines, domestic, gallons 121 24100 

bottles 1,281 519 75 

" foreign, '' 382 344 00 

gallons 18 63 00 

Whiskey, gallons 6 9 00 

bottles 94 91 00 



56 



BOOKS AXD STATIONERY. 

Books and PampliletS; box 10 S65 06 

Envelopes 22,853 " 6Q 81 

box 93 93 80 

Ink, bottles 13 3 65 

" quarts 6 2 80 

Paper, note, reams 110 221 00 

" letter, " 112i 582 75 

Pens, dozens 108? 6 93 

" Holders 220 2 20 

Postage Stamps, 3 cts 350 10 60 

S(^ldiers' Friend 825 82 50 

Eeading Matter, box 10 50 00 

$49,871 66 



56 



ISSUES MADE 



VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS 



For the Relief of Soldiers in the Department of Pennsylvania, from 
October 15th 1861, to December 1st, 1865. 



Articles. 

Adhesive Plaster, yard^ 

Arm Slings 

Arrow Root, lbs 



Numbers. 

5.... 

48.... 

4.... 



Apple Butter, gallons 194. 

Bread, loaves 

Bay Rum, bottles 7. 

Butter, lbs 581. 

Bandages, dozens 560. 

Barley, lbs 2. 

Bl ankets 105. 

Blouses, wool 17 . 

Bed Ticks 



Chairs. 

" Pans 

Brushes, hair 

Beef, Extract of. lbs. 

" dried, ' " , 

" stock, " . 

" fresh. 
Coffee, green, " 

" ground " 

Cheese, " 

Corn Meal, " 

" Starch, 

" dried. 
Cakes, " 



Ticking, yards 64. 



Candies, lbs.... 10. 



Value. 

$1 25 

10 20 

2 20 
184 25 

50 48 

3 40 
256 70 
800 00 

14 

281 00 

55 25 

204 402 20 

21 76 

11 20 
3 00 
6 24 

21 00 
85 69 

10 00 
24 36 

182 79 

2 36 
48 82 

3 99 
32 34 

3 50 

11 75 

4 00 



7. 

2. 

24! 

21. 

395. 

10. 

138. 

479. 

6. 

246. 

114. 

280. 

70. 

47. 



57 

Crackers, lbs 454 $53 83 

Chocolate/' 77 39 03 

Cocoa, '' 62 30 50 

Catsup and Sauces, bottles 147 42 67 

Coats, wool 47 192 00 

" ligbt 25 47 50 

Combs 232 14 72 

Collars 5 50 

Canes 93 30 41 

Cushions and Pads 14 3 30 

Caps 29 14 50 

Crutches, pairs 275 148 93 

" patent 1 3 50 

Cologne, bottles 24 12 00 

Condensed Milk, lbs 278 77 85 

Chair, Night 1 4 00 

Eocking 4 22 00 

Drawers, wool, pairs 410 770 33 

cotton, " 344 464 50 

'' flannel, pairs 50 80 50 

Eggs, dozens 291 85 30 

Eje Glasses, green, pairs 6 1 80 

Farina, lbs 224 26 45 

Fans 197 8 63 

Flour, barrels 1 12 50 

'' prepared, lbs. 47J 3 80 

Fruit, preserved, cans 10 5 00 

" dried, assorted, lbs 193 73 30 

" Apples, green, barrels.... 141 71 50 

" bushels 2261 283 13 

dried, barrels 14i 203 00 

" lbs." 605 73 25 

" Cranberries, bushels 1 4 00 

" Lemons, boxes 22i 250 25 

" Oranges, '' 3.^ 18 00 

'' Tamarinds, lbs 5 50 

Ginger, Extract of, bottles 19 5 73 

Honey, lbs 14 4 20 

Ham, " 64 12 48 

Handkerchiefs 686 99 12 

Housewives 148 37 00 

Jellies and Preserves, jars 979 422 25 

Lint, lbs 8 4 00 

Lemon Syrup, bottles 44.... 22 00 



58 

Mattresses 2 . . 

Matches, gross 1.. 

Muslin, yards 200. . 

Mosquito Netting, pieces 3.. 

Oat Meal, lbs.. ..7 U.. 

Old Linen and Muslin Eags, lbs 225. , 

Olive Oil, bottles 

Pepper, lbs 281 

Pickles, barrels 2.. 

gallons 773.. 

'' jars 28.. 

" Cabbage, gallons 411.. 

barrels 4.. 

Pillows 53.. 

Cases 148.. 

Pants, wool 112.. 

cotton 10.. 

Quilts and Comfortables 26.. 

Rusks, lbs 427.. 

" barrels li 

Rice, lbs 86.. 

" FloLir, lbs 5.. 

Rubber Cloth, yards 3. . 

Syrups, assorted, bottles 5.. 

Shirts, cotton 1,081.. 

wool 062.. 

Sugar, lbs 850.. 

Sheets 386.. 

Shoes, pairs 63.. 

Slippers, " 402.. 

Scrapple, lbs 20.. 

Sausage, " 109.. 

Salt, bags , 7. . 

Soap, lbs 87 . . 

Socks, cotton, pairs 440.. 

" wool, '' 575.. 

Spices, assorted, lbs 22.. 

Soap, soft, barrels 1.. 

'' Castile, lbs 121.. 

Salve, boxed 25.. 

Sponges, lbs 18.. 

Stretchers 2 . . 

Tobacco, plug, lbs 266.. 

" smoking, lbs Q<d.. 



$6 


00 


3 


25 


80 


00 


6 


90 


1 


42 


50 


25 


15 


96 


36 


00 


514 


^:>b 


14 


00 


153 


15 


36 


00 


78 


10 


59 


20 


338 


50 


15 


00 


108 


20 


23 


32 


6 


50 


8 


m 




50 


4 


50 


1 


25 


1,490 


12 


1,220 


25 


240 


98 


591 


00 


71 


80 


278 


85 


1 


47 


24 


15 


2 


35 


12 


97 


99 


00 


216 


96 


19 


28 


8 


00 


29 


00 


7 


24 


31 


44 


11 


50 


167 


80 


36 45 



59 



Tea, black, lbs. 



21 §25 60 



'' sfreeii; '' 62. 

Towels 428. 

12. 

2. 

5. 

6. 

24. 

....'.. 14. 



Tin Basins 

Urinals 

Vinegar, gallons 

" Aromatic, bottles... 
" Raspberry, " 
Yegetables, mixed, barrels. 
Cabbage, " 
" Onions, '' 

Potatoes, '' 
Turnips, " , 
" Tomatoes, cans.. 



18. 

52. 

2. 

325. 

Tests, wool 18. 

Wrappers 25. 

Water Coolers 1. 



WINES AND LIQUORS. 

Ale and Porter, bottles 48. 

8. 
25. 

9. 
74. 



Brandy, gallons 

'' bottles 

" Blackberry, gallons 

bottles 

Wine, domestic, gallons 8 

bottles 115 

" foreign, gallons 3 

bottles 97 

Whiskey, gallons 32 

bottles 59 



BOOKS AND STATIONERY. 

Envelopes 4,704. . 

Paper, note, reams 3.. 

letter, " 2J. 

Pens, gross 1 . . 

" Holders 144.. 

Soldiers' Friend 107.. 

Reading matter 5.. 



81 


40 


71 


22 


3 


00 


1 50 


1 


75 


1 


50 


9 


96 


50 75 


17 


88 


121 


13 


263 


75 


6 


00 


114 50 


28 50 


87 50 


8 


00 


9 


60 


52 


00 


35 


55 


31 


75 


56 


65 


11 


50 


56 


50 


6 


75 


96 


75 


80 


00 


43 


bb 


11 


61 


14 


00 


13 


75 




84 


1 


44 


10 70 


5 


00 



Total $13,853 43 



60 



ISSUES MADE 



INDIVIDUAL SOLDIERS 



In the Service and discharged, from October 15th, 1§61, to 
December 1st, 1865. 



Articles. 



Number. 



Value. 



Arm Slings 14. 

Arrow Eoot, lbs 1 . 

Blouses, wool 170. 



Bread, loaves , 

Bay Rum^ bottles 

Blankets, wool 

Brushes, Hair 

Bed, Sacks 

Bandages, barrels 

" dozen 

Beef, lbs 

'' Dried, lbs 

" Extract of, lbs 

Coffee, Ground " 

Corn Starch " 

Cakes 

Candies ^' 

Crackers " 

Chocolate " 

Cocoa " 

Catsup and Sauces, bottles. 

Combs 

Collars 

Cuffs 



11.. 

4.. 
48 . 

3.. 

6.. 

1.. 
751. 

2.. 
12.. 

4.. 

7.. 

131.. 

53.. 

6.. 
53.. 
36.. 
16i 

3.. 
13.. 



$2 


90 




55 


►52 


50 




88 


2 


20 


.56 


75 




82 


12 


00 


10 


00 


96 


87 




36 


1 


80 


4 


00 


2 


m 


15 


72 


13 


25 


2 


40 


6 


98 


18 


63 


7 


83 




75 




86 


7 


Q<d 




75 



Coats, wool 401 . 



2,041 00 



61 

Coats, Light 146 $312 50 

" Over 28 252 00 

Canes 759 249 84 

Cushions and Pads 9 135 

Air 2 11 00 

Cologne, bottles 1 60 

Caps 126 63 00 

Crutches, pairs 56 28 85 

Spring, pairs , 12 60 50 

Comfortables and Quilts, pairs 33 132 80 

Drawers, wool, " 3,779 7,394 87 

Cotton " 855 1,187 68 

'' Flannel " 302 502' 50 

Drugs and Medicines 6 00 

Eye Glasses, Green, pairs 80 23 50 

Ear Trumpets 1 2 50 

Earina, lbs 97 11 61 

Fans 3 09 

Flavoring Extract 1 33 

Fruits, Preserved, cans 5 2 40 

" Dried, barrels 2 30 00 

'' lbs 5 1 75 

" Apple Butter, gallons.., 11 8 25 

*' Apples, Green, bushels, 30 37 50 

" Lemons, boxes 2......... 11 00 

" Oranges, " 2 8 00 

" Tamarinds, lbs 5 50 

Ginger, Extract of; bottles 21 6 29 

Games 104 10 40 

Honej,lbs 27 2 20 

Haveiocks 60 18 00 

Housewives 150 37 50 

Handkerchiefs 983 133 41 

Lint,lbs 35 17 50 

Medical Saddle Bags 1 13 50 

Mittens and Gloves, pairs -.... 231 9175 

Mosquito Netting 2 30 

Milk, Condensed, lbs 13 4 85 

Neckties 160 13 83 

Needle Books 2 25 

Oat Meal, lbs 3 30 

Pickles, gallons 1 45 

jars 20 10 00 

Preserves and JellieS; jars 259 129 50 



62 

Pillows 20 $29 90 

PillowCases 83 13 20 

Pants, A^ool 569 2,063 00 

Pants, light 102 240 75 

Eusk, barrels 1 5 00 

Bags, lbs 68 11 45 

Eice, " 24 3 10 

" Flour, lbs 7 70 

Eocking Chair 3 13 50 

Syrups, assorted, bottles 2 50 

Lemon, " 2 100 

Shirts, Cotton 1,033 1,373 37 

" Flannel 328 571 00 

" Wool 5,793 11,024 25 

Sponges, lbs 4 48 

Sugar, White, lbs 190 45 13 

Sheets 58 94 75 

Shoes, pairs 799 1,241 23 

" Gum, pairs 7 14 00 

" for Artificial Leg 2 6 00 

Slippers, pairs 258 187 40 

Sausage, lbs 1 12 

Suspenders, pairs 32 8 00 

Spices, assorted, lbs 2 1 20 

ground, " 1 69 

Shoulder Braces 3 15 00 

Soap, assorted, lbs 28 4 18 

" Castile, " 6 150 

Socks, cotton 519 128 05 

" wool 3,924 1,489 52 

Stomach Pads 1 25 

Trusses 4 14 00 

Double 3 18 00 

Tobacco, Plug, lbs 424 403 93 

Smoking, lbs 6 3 58 

Teas, " 35 44 48 

Towels., 161 27 37 

Vinegar, bottles 2 25 

" Easpberrj, bottles 7 2 31 

Vegetables, Tomatoes, cans 15 5 00 

" Onions, bushels 5 5 00 

Vests, wool 160 199 50 

Wrappers 68 238 50 

Washing Machines 2 20 00 

Wringers 1 9 00 



63 



WINES AND LIQUOES. 



Ale, bottles 

Brandy, bottles 

" Blackberry, bottles. 
Cherry, 
Cordial, Blackberrj^, " 
Syrup " " 

Gin, Holland, 
Jamaica Eum, " 

Wine, Domestic, '' 

" Foreign, " 

Whiskey, *' 



6 


§1 20 


40 


54 10 


28 


21 30 


1 


50 


64 


32 00 


3 


1 50 


4 


5 00 


2 


2 00 


35 


13 00 


94 


.. 90 75 


16 


27 00 



BOOKS AND STATIONERY. 



Envelopes 4,970. 

Ink, bottles 2. 

Paper, reams 4. 

Pens, gross 2. 

Pencils, Lead 1. 



14 90 
16 

15 20 
1 62 

04 
Postage Stamps, three-cent 621 18 63 



$33,671 01 



64 



ISSUES MADE 



li. S. SANITARY COMMISSION LODGE, 



From the day of Opening, May 12th, 1865, to date of Closing, 
November llth, 1865. 



20. 
14. 
14. 



Articles. Number. 

Arm Slinajs 12... 

Adhesion Plaster, j^ards 11 

Apple Butter, gallons 

Bandages, dozen 

Blouses 

Bed Ticks 

Beef, lbs 

" Stock, lbs 

" Dried, '' 

Blankets, wool 

Butter, lbs 735 

Bread, loaves 40 

Candles, lbs 8 

Canes 24 

Cheese, lbs 218 



Value. 

. §3 00 

3 30 

20 00 

17 50 

45 50 

200 500 00 

26 4 68 

1 1 00 

50 13 00 

91 341 25 

. 367 50 



Catsup and Sauces, bottles. 

Corn, Dried, lbs 

" Starch, lbs 

Coats, wool 

Cocoa, lbs 



43. 
53. 
12. 

6. 



Coffee, Ground 295 156 

Clock 1 

Combs 12 

Comfortables and Quilts 181 

Drawers, Canton Flannel, pairs 72 

Wool " 50 

Eje Shades 6 

Eggs, dozen 82 



3 


20 


2 


40 


8 


00 


54 


50 


14 


19 


o 


18 


1 


68 


27 


00 


1 


62 


156 


35 


15 


00 




72 


633 


50 


126 


00 


96 


00 


1 


50 


28 70 



65 

Farina lbs 12 $1 56 

Fruits, assorted, dried, lbs 250 87 50 

Apples, " " 896 11199 

Flaxseed " 18 144 

Games 40 4 80 

Ginger, Extract of, bottles 81 25 92 

Handkerchiefs 98 14 70 

Ham, lbs 14 3 50 

Head Bests 3. 4 80 

Housewives 6 1 50 

Lint,lbs 2 1 00 

Lime, Chloride of, lbs 25 2 50 

Matches, gross 1 2 50 

Match Safes 6 1 20 

Nails, lbs 10 80 

Netting, Mosquito, pieces 2 5 00 

Old Linen and Muslin Eags, lbs 71 14 20 

Pads, ring 6 1 50 

Preserves and Jellies, jars 61 30 50 

Pickles, gallons 273 122 85 

'' jars 9 4 50 

Pillows 92 128 80 

" Cases 400 160 00 

" Ticks 100 40 00 

Rice, lbs •. 49 7 35 

Refrigerator 25 00 

Scissors 1 35 

Stretchers 2 11 00 

Sheets 412 515 00 

Soap,lbs 526 73 6i 

Shirts, wool 122 213 50 

cotton 62 77 50 

Slippers, pairs 48 36 00 

Socks, cotton, pairs 12 3 60' 

wool, '^ 120 48 00 

Saccharine Lemon Juice, lbs 1 50 

Sponges, lbs 7 35 00 

Spices, assorted, " 26 16 90 

Nutmegs, " 14 26 60 

Pepper, Cayenne. '' 1 80 

Sugar, white, ' " 15 3 30 

maple, " 42 6 30 

Thread, cotton, spools, dozens 1 90 

Teas, lbs 2 2 80 



66 



Tin Cups 

Table Cloths. 
Towels 



Towelling, yards 

Vermicelli, lbs 

Vegetables, Potatoes, barrels. 
" Tomatoes, cans... 



Writing Desk. 



72. 

4. 

58. 

132. 



91 



$9 00 



10 


00 


12 


18 


29 


04 




90 


27 


75 


11 


10 



6 00 



WINES AND LIQUOES. 

Brandy, bottles 25. 

Cordial, Blackberry, bottles 11. 

Wine, domestic, " 216., 

gallons 31. 

" foreig:n, bottles 6. 



BOOKS AND STATIONEEY. 



24. 

9 



Pencils 

Books and Pamplets, boxes 

Envelopes 5,608 

Ink, gallons 2 

" Stands 7 

Paper, letter, reams 
note 



wrapping, quires. 
Pens, dozens 



1. 
1. 

2. 
13. 



33 


75 


33 


00 


108 


00 


93 


00 


6 


00 


1 


20 


20 


00 


16 


82 


4 


00 




84 


5 


50 


3 


00 




40 




96 



Total : $4,799 81 



67 



ISSUES MADE 



U. S. TRANSPOET STEAMERS, 



From October 15th, 1861, to December 1st, 1865. 



Apple Butter, gallons 14 $14 00 

Bay Eum, bottles 26 15 60 

Comfortables and Quilts , 34 

Cologne, bottles 86 

Cushions 12 

Crackers, Soda, lbs 104 

Condensed Milk, lbs 12 

Drawers, cotton, pairs 144 

1^ " flannel, pairs 12 

wool " 88 

Eggs, dozens 24 

Farina, lbs 6 

Flavoring Extract, bottles 2 

Fruit, dried, lbs 50 

'' Apples, dried, lbs 96 12 

" Lemons, boxes 2J 

Handkerchiefs 144 

Lint, lbs 10 

Mosquito Netting, pieces 4 

Pickles^ gallons 48 

" Cabbage, gallons 10 

Pillows 10 

Cases , 6 

Preserves and Jellies, jars 75 

Eags, lbs 25 

Eice, lbs 20 



189 


00 


12 


00 


8 


00 


11 


44 


4 


20 


194 


00 


15 


00 


74 


96 


8 40 




57 




50 


10 


00 


12 


00 


82 


75 


21 


60 


5 


00 


10 


00 


22 


85 


4 


00 


14 40 


2 


40 


87 


50 


6 


25 


8 


00 



68 

Shirts, cotton 231 §389 25 

" wool 143 270 25 

SplintS; small 6 72 

Slippers, pairs 13 9 75 

Sheets 6 12 00 

Socks, cotton, pairs 48 14 40 

'' wool, " 136 50 40 

Shoes, " 3 4 65 

Tomatoes, cans 51 19 20 

Towels 160 28 16 

Vegetables, Onions, barrels 2 15 50 

Potatoes, " 5 24 75 

Beets, " 3 14 25 



WINES AND LIQUOES. 

Ale, bottles 48 9 60 

Brandy, Blackberry, bottles 24 19 20 

Wine, domestic, " 12 6 00 

" foreign, '' 78 78 00 

Whiskey 18 13 50 

BOOKS AND STATIONEEY. 

Books and Pamphlets, box 1 10 00 

Envelopes, " 5 5 00 

Paper, note, reams 4 8 25 



• 



$1,726 75 



69 



SUPPLIES ISSUED 



SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' HOME 



FKOM THE 



U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION LODGE. 



Blankets, white, pairs 

Benches , 

Buckets 

BeclsteadS; iron 

'' " large 

" Sacks 

Books, lot 

Boilers 

" Circulating 

Candles, lbs 

Chairs 

" Bed 

" Rocking 

" Wheel 

Crutches 

Cordial, Black'berry, jugs. 

Desk 

Fans 

Flax Seed, bags 

Games , . . . . 

Gas Pipes and Fixtures.... 

Garden Tools , 

Household Furniture 

Kitchen Range 

Lime, Chloride of, lbs 

Mustard, box 



3 $21 00 

29 43 50 

10 3 00 

21 94 50 

4 36 00 

8 8 00 

1 10 00 

8 36 00 

1 100 00 

3... 90 

34.. 25 50 

7 10 50 

1... 4 00 

1.. 15 00 

64 16 00 

3 9 00 

1 5 00 

4 12 

1 50 

6 60 

200 00 

5 75 

63 77 

1 120 00 

33 3 30 

J 17 



70 ^ 

Mosquito Bars 2 $4 00 

Match Safes 6 1 50 

Onions, barrels i 2 00 

Pillow Slips 250 75 00 

Hair 79 98 75 

Feather 10 10 00 

Pads.... 5 75 

Plumbing work 350 00 

Eepository 1 2 00 

Eefrigerator 1 20 00 

Eollers 8 2 64 

Stone Ware 25 45 

Stove and Furniture 1 56 60 

Syringes 2 1 50 

Stretcher 1 5 00 

Sinks, iron 5 27 50 

Settees 13 52 00 

Sauces, glasses 17 3 40 

Spices, lot 5 00 

Soap, Castile, lbs 60 13 80 

Tin Ware 27 94 

Towels, roller 19 9 50 

Table Cloths 4 7 00 

Tables, small 9 13 50 

" dining 8 40 00 

sitting room 2 12 00 

" kitchen 2 12 00 

" ironing 1 2 00 

Tubs 5 6 00 

" bath 4 100 00 

Wine, bottles 2 2 00 

I 

$1,820 94 



71 



SUPPLIES ISSUED 



AMERICAN FREEDMEN'S AID SOCIETY 



FROM THE 



U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION LODGE. 



Articles. Number. Value. 

Arm Slings 5 $1 00 

Blankets, Grey, Double 24 120 00 

Single 57 142 60 

Bedspreads 145 471 25 

" Ticks 197 295 50 

Bowls,Stone 36 3 60 

Bread Baskets, Tin 6 4 50 

Coats 2 7 00 

Canes 2 m 

Chairs 12 9 00 

Drawers, Wool, pairs 15 30 00 

" Cotton Flannel; pairs 5 7 50 

Cotton " 2 . 2 50 

Deep Dishes 64 12 80 

Handkerchiefs 9 1 35 

Knives and Forks, dozen 10 20 00 

Bibles, Testaments, &c., lot 1 10 00 

Map of United States 1 6 00 

Pillow Ticks 89 26 70 

Plates,Stone 149 14 90 

Shirts, Cotton 21 31 50 

Socks, pairs 17 5 61 

Slippers, pairs 16 8 00 

Sheets 359 359 00 



■12 

Slates 3 $ 60 

Spoons, Large, dozen 9 6 75 

Small, " 3.; 1 20 

Stone Cups and Saucers 28 3 50 

Salt Cellars, Stone 11 88 

Glass 14 1 40 

Towels 22 4 40 

Tin Caps, dozen 9 ." 4 50 

Tumblers, Glass 21 2 10 

$1,616 20 



OFFICEBS 



U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION 



PHILADELPHIA 



Executive Committee of the Philadelphia Association, 

HORACE BINNEY, Jr., Chairman. 

EDWARD HARTSHORNE, M. D., Secretary. 
CALEB COPE, Treasurer. 

M. W. Baldwin, Samuel Powel, 

Rev. H. a. Boardman, D. D., Thomas T. Tasker, 

John C. Cresson, Samuel Y. Merrick, 

J. I. Clark Hare, William M. Tilghman, 

John F. Meigs, M. D., Prof. Fairman Rogers, 

Charles J. Stille, ' Robert M. Lewis. 



ROBERT M. LEWIS, General Superintendent, 



Philadelphia Agency, 



ISro. 1307 CKCESTJSrXJT STIiEET. 



SPECIAL COMMITTEES 



ON HOSPITAL SUPPLIES. 

SAMUEL Y. MERRICK, Chairman. 



Jacob Alburger, 
Hon. Joseph Allison, 
William H. Ashhurst, 
C. B. Barclay, 
Horace Binney, Jr., 
Rev, Dr. Boardman, 
Rev. Dr. Brainerd, 
Arthur G. Coffin, 
George M. Conarroe, 
Dr. J. M. Corse, 
Hugh Davids, 
M. L. Dawson, 
Frederick Fraley, 
Rev. Dr. Wm. H. Furness, 
Dr. Edward Hartshorne, 
Rev. Mr, Hutter, 



J. Warner Johnson, 
Thomas Kimber, Jr., 
Dr. Caspar Morris, 
Hon. Sketchly Morton, 
Dr. Joseph Parrish, 
Samuel Powel, 
William L. Rehn, 
Dr. L. Rodman, 
Fairman Rogers, 
Charles J. Stille, 
Hon. William Strong, 
Thomas T. Tasker, 
William M. Tilghman, 
John H. Towne, 
John Welsh, 
Ellis Yarnall. 



CHARLES HARTSHORNE, Secretary. 



ON MEDICAL AND SANITARY INSPECTION. 



John C. Cresson, 
James N. Linnard, 
J. I. Clark Hare, 
John H. B. McClellan, M. 
George W. Norris, M. D., 
John F. Meigs, M. D., 
Edward Hartshorne, M. D 
Wilson Jewell, M. D., 
Isaac I. Hays, M. D., 
Alfred Stille, M. D., 

Thomas S. 



Robley Dunglison, M. D., 
F. Gurney Smith, Jr., M.D. 
John H. Towne, 

D., Joseph Leidy, M. D., 
Wm. D wight Bell, 
F. W. Lewis, M.D., 

,, Rev. H. J. Morton, D. D., 

E. Spencer Miller, 
Joseph Jeanes, 
Joseph Carson, M. D,, 

Kirkbride, M. D. 



jPHOTEGTIVE 

WAR-CLABl AND PENSION AGENCY. 



Board of Directors. 

WILLIAM M. TILGHMAN, Chairman. 

Horace Binney, Jr., Robert M. Lewis, 

Alexander Brown, George M. Conarroe, 

Hon. J. I. Clark Hare, Charles J. Stille, 

William Welsh, George D. Parrish, 

William L, Rehn, H. Lenox Hodge, M. U , 

George Trott, Atherton Blight. 

H. LENOX HODGE, M. D., Examining Surgeon. 
EDWARD A. SMITH, Assistant Surgeon. 
WM. N. ASHMAN, Solicitor. . 
JAS. W. HAZLEHURST, Assistant Solicitor. 



HOSPITAL DIRECTORY DEPARTMENT. 

Biiperintendsnt. 

JOHN W. WILSON. 



SPECIAL RELIEF DEPARTMENT. 

Special I^elief jlgent. 

Colonel CLEMENT SOEST. 



LODaE 



S. W. CORNER OF 



1?'lx±:artGGH.tl3. ^xxc3. <Dla.r±sit±£t:M3. Stx-eots. 



Superintendent. 

Colonel CLEME:NT SOEST, 

JvLatron. 

MRS. ELIZABETH DODGE. 

Burgeons. 

H. LENOX HODGE, M. D. 
EDWARD A. SMITH, M. D. 



BUEEAU OF EMPLOYMENT 

FOB 



Disabled and Discharged Soldiers and Sailors, 

UNDER CHARGE OF THE 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATES. 



JOHN W. WILSON, 
Secretary, 



]Sd:EMBEIlS 



WOMEN'S PENNSYLYANIA BlUNCH. 



MR. CALEB COPE, President and Treasurer. 
MR. R. M. LEWIS, Secretary. 



Mrs. M. B. Grier, 

'' B. H. Moore, 

" J. R. Chandler, 

'' W. H. Furness, 

" Lathrop, 

'* L. Norris, 

" George Plttt, • 

" C. J. Sttlle, 

"■ David Samuel, 

'' J. Edgar Thompson, 

" T. T. Tasker, 

" J. Tevts, 

" E. D. Gillespie, 

" Alex. Henry, 

" A. D. Jessup, 

*' Israel Maule, 

'' J. F. Tobias, 

" W. H. ASHHURST, 

'' Alex. Brown, 

" E. Clark, 

" Samuel H. Clapp, 

'' Samuel C. Fisher, 

" John T. Frazer, 

" Dr. Camac, 

" Dr. William Hunt, 

" E. M. Richardson, 

" Judge Strong, 

Mr. p. p. Randolph, 

" E. F. Houghton, 



Mrs. Ben. Griffith, 

'' J. Warner Johnson, 
'' Wm. R. Lejee, 
'' C. J. Peterson, 
'' J. H. TOWNE, 

Miss M. M. Duane, 
Mrs. Samuel Field, 

'' Aubrey H. Smith, 

" Thomas A. Budd, 

'' R. M. Lewis, 

" M. L. Frederick, 

" Alfred M. Collins, 

'' Wm. R. McClees, 
Miss S. B. Dunlap, 
Mrs. Casper Wister, 

'' F AIRMAN Rogers, 

'' G. A. Wood, 

'' Frederick Collins, 

«' Galvin, 

" Theodore Cuyler, 
Miss Rachael W. Morris, 
Mrs. C. Graff, 

'' Isaac Hazlehurst, 
Mr. F airman Rogers, 

'' C. B. Barclay, 

" W. P. WiLSTACH, 

" Ward B. Hazletine, 
Dr. Joseph Parrish, 
Mrs. Joseph Parrish. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



MRS. M. B. GRIER, Chairman. 



Mrs. T. a. Budd, 


Mrs. Lathrop, 


" Joseph R. Chandler, 


" Bloomfield H. Moore, 


" Dr. Cam AC, 


*' Louis Norris, 


Miss M. M. Duane, 


" George Plitt, 


" S. B. DUNLAP, 


Mr. Philip P. Randolph, 


Mrs. Edward Etttng, 


Mrs. David Samuel, 


" Wm. H. Furness, 


'' C. J. Stille, 


" M. B. Grier, 


" Judge Strong, 


" B. Griffith, 


" J. Edgar Thompson, 


" R. M. Lewis, 


'' T. T. Tasker, 


SPECIAL 


AIDS. 


Miss H. Blanchard, 


Miss E. P. Hawley, 


" Anna Blanchard, 


'' M. J. Moss, 


" Sarah F. Cutler, 


" E. C. Maule, 


" Conarroe, 


'' Helen Scott. 



Corresjjonding Secretary. 
MRS. BLOOMFIELD H. MOORE. 

Assistant Corresponding Secretary. 
MRS. S. H. CLAPP. 



SPECIAL AIDS. 



Mrs. S. a. Allibone, 
'' Wm. Biddle, 

Miss Condy, 
'' Darrach, 

Mrs. Horace Fassitt, 
'' H. Frothingham, 



Miss M. A. Greene, 

" Keating, 

" Mason, 
Mrs. Shubrick, 
Miss Shubrick, 

" Wells, 



Miss White. 



79 



AIDS TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



MONDAY. 


Miss Louisa BreadY; 


Mrs. a. Stephens, 


" SaLLIE CARPENTER; 


'' G. L. Harrison, 


" Kebecca Moss, 


" A. Edwards, 


'' Charlotte Morris, 


Miss Walton, 


" E. C. Maule, 


" Marcelina Fassitt, 


" CONNARROE, 


" Fairman, 


" Josephine Moss, 


" Yarnall, 


" Helen Hunter, 


" Collins, 


" Sophia Starr, 


" Perot, 


" Helen Struthers, 


" Ingham, 


" Mary A. Lewis, 


" Phillippa Etting, 


" Anthony, 


" M. Strong, 


" R. Trotter, 


Mrs. Richard Biddle, 


Mrs. W. C. Porter, 


Miss Dayton, 


" Horace Fassitt, 


" Lincoln, 


" Wells, 


" Gordon, 


" Frothingham, 


" M. Collins. 


TUESDAY. 


Mrs. Casper W ister. 


Miss Mary Dulles, 


" R. L. ASHHURST, 


" S. W. Fisher, 


" John Potter, . 


" Mary Fisher, 


Miss Stocker, 


" Phillips, 


" Emily Brown, 


" Pleasants, 


" Mary Emlen, 


" Bradford, 


" Maggie Brinton, 


" Stone, 


" Annie Frazier, 


'• ROSSELL, 


'' Louisa Frazier, 


" A. Smith, ^ 


" Frazier, 


'' A. E. Buckley, 


" Mary Cadwalader, 


" Ella Willing, 


" Maria Cadwalader, 


" Annie Bradford, 


" Emily Ashhurst, 


" Samuel, 


" E. R. Ashhurst. 


" Lea, 


" Sallie Hayes, 


Mrs. Leland, 


" Frothingham, 


Miss Lena Peters. 



80 



WEDNESDAY. 



Mes. Whelan, 

" EOACH, 

Miss Chaelotte EosteE; 
" C. B. Smith, 
" Julia W. Thompson, 
" Louise Baldwin, 
" Buchanan, 



Miss Saeah F. Cuylee, 

" Lauea Collett, 

" Nettie Jackson, 

" Bleeckee, 

" Cecilia Baldwin, 

" Haeeiet Buchanan, 

" Eleanoe C. Patteeson, 



Miss Maey Welsh. 



Ethel Smith, 
Ceissie Baeclay, 
Willie Fostee, 
Mes. Williams, 



Occasional Aids. 

Miss Faenum, 



Miss Gilmoee. 



Mes. Fassit, 
Miss White, 
Faitoute, 



THUESDAY. 



Mes. E. ay. Smith, 
" Maey Caepentee, 
" Julia Jones, 
" Fannie Claek, 
" Maey Claek, 
" Maeq. Hutchinson, 
" Maey Meigs, 
" Ellen Keating, 
" Ellen G. Wood, 
" Maey Paul, 

Mes.^Heney Whaeton, 

Miss M. H. Bache, 

Mes. Wm. Biddle, 

" Sidney Hutchinson, 

Miss L. Jackson, 

'• ElVINUS; 

" Fannie Hawley, 



Miss Maey Whelan, 

" Fettus, 

" Ella Whelan, 

" Wiee, 

" CONDY, 

Mes. Le Conte, 

'' AuBEEY H. Smith, 

'' Zantzingee, 
Miss McKee, 

" Inches, of Boston, 

" Louisa Feaziee, 

" Platt, 

" Elizabeth Mitchell, 

" DOEE, 

" Lea, 

" Hollingswoeth, 
Laednee, 



Miss Gillingham. 



81 



FKIDAY. 




Miss Mary Hollingsworth, 


^ Miss Jackson, 


" Nannie Dunlap, 


Mrs. J. EiDDLE, 


" C. H. Thompson, 


Miss Lapsley, 


" H. E. Thompson, 


" EODMAN, 


" A. Nixon, 


Mrs. Talbot, 


" Mary Kirkham, 


Miss Samuel, 


" Maria Blanchard, 


" M. Stille, 


" EOSENGARTEN, 


" Nancrede, 


Miss Wagner. 




SATUEDAY. 




Miss Latta, 


Miss Paul, 


'' A. CoxE, 


" Collet, 


" E. CoxE, 


" Cabot, 


" Brinton, 


" Smith, 


" BOGGS, 


" VV EIR, 


" Abbott/^ 


" Wharton, 


" Hawley, 


" BUDD, 


Mrs. Mc Alpine 




Storeheeper, 


Porter, 


Wilson J. Carver, 


Henry Hance 



* Died first day of December, 1864. 



EELIEF COMMITTEE 

FOB 

Relief and [inplofment of Wives aod Families 

OP 

SOLDIEES AND SAILOES. 



Mrs. TEYIS, Chairman, 

Mrs. Alfred M. Collins, Mrs. J. Maule, 

" Frederick Collins, " Wm. McClees, 

'• Theodore Cuyler, " Nicholson, 

" Denniston, " Peterson, 

" M. L. Frederick, " Eichardson, 

" H. H. Furness, " Fairman Eogers, 

" Galvin, " Tevis, 

" Gillespie, " Casper Wister, 

" Hunt, " G. A. Wood, 

Mr. E. F. Houghton, Mr. Alfred D. Jessup, 
Mr. Fairman Eogers. 

Miss Baldwin, Mrs. Ogden, 

Mrs. Conrad, Miss Parrish, 

" Frazier, '' Patterson, 

Miss Galvin, Mrs. Pancoast, 

Mrs. Gilpin, Miss Perot, 

Miss Nassau, Mrs. Towne, 

Miss Williams. 

COMMITTEE ON CORRESPONDENCE. 

Mrs. P. M. Clapp, Mrs. C. Graff, 

" B. Clark, *' Isaac Hazlehurst, 

" S. F. Cuyler, Miss Mary Kirkham, 

Miss S. B. Dunlap, Mrs. E. Lathrop, 

Mrs. L. Delafield, Miss E. W. Morris, 

" E. D. Gillespie, Mrs. George Plttt, 
Miss Helen Scott. 



U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION. 

BUREAU OF EMPLOYMENT 

FOR 

DISABLED AND DISCHARGED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. 
No. 1307 Chestnut Street, 



Under the Charge of the Executive Committee of the Philadelphia 

Associates. 



HORACE BINNEY, Jr., Chairman. 
EDWARD HARTSHORNE, M. D., Sec. CALEB COPE, Trea^. 



M. W. BALDWIN, 

Rev. H. a. BOARDMAN, D.D., 

JOHN C. CRESSON, 

J. I. CLARK HARE, 



JOHN F. MEIGS, M. D., SAMUEL V. MERRICK, 

CHARLES J. STILLfi, WILLIAM M. TILGHMAN, 

SAMUEL POWEL, Prof. FAIRMAN ROGERS, 

THOMAS T. TASKER, ROBERT M. LEWIS. 



THIS BUREAU IS ESTABLISHED WITH THE FOLLOWIxVtt OBJECTS: 

1. To aid those who have served honorably in the Army or Navy of the United States 
in obtaining employment. 

2. To prevent the necessity of costly charitable institutions, such as exist in Eu- 
rope, but which are foreign to our ideas, and repulsive to the innate dignity of American 
soldiers and sailors. 

3. To lessen the pauperism and crime that follows war, and surely attends on large 
numbers of unoccupied men left to themselves, without employment or means of sub- 
sistence. 

4. To save to the country a large amount of productive labor in this season of trial, 
when it can least afford to maintain idle hands. ' ' 

The services of the Bureau are given gratuitously, both to employers and employed. 

Information and suggestions are I'eiuested relative to labor adapted to maimed and 
disabled men— to men wlio have lost an arm or leg — who are unable to wallc, but have 
the free use of their hands — who are handless, yet can travel about on their feet — so tliat 
this Bureau shall be enabled to provide every disabled and deserving applicant with 
some kind of employment. 

Employers are requested to send in applications for every class of employees. They 
are reminded that our army contains men of every trade and calling, and that our best 
and most trustworthy young men are in its ranks. 



Address, 



Secretary of Bureau, 
1307 Chestnut Street, l*liilaila. 



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